Sentences with phrase «see less ice»

But, on top of that there has been a trend downward, such that year by year we see less ice all the time.

This is especially true for lakes at high latitudes that are covered in ice each winter but may see less ice as temperatures rise.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

Not exact matches

One can see that the same matter takes different forms, as in ice, water, and steam, and that that which takes these several forms must have much less definite form than any of these individual forms of it.

Their appearance may be less extravagant than the gingerbread men you see covered head - to - foot with royal icing, but these cookie simply don't need that kind of adornment.

Some manufacturers don't like seeing gums on the label, which can really help with texture and reducing ice crystal formation in formulations with less fat and sugar.

For this case, I tend follow our neighbors in Italy at the gelaterias, whose definition is perhaps more expansive than those used elsewhere as well as their ice creams (gelati) have less butterfat, and often only use milk, or soy milk, as I recently saw on my trip to Rome.

traditional ice - cool finish saw the England international bag his 50th goal in a red shirt, and in 87 appearances, no less — bringing up his half - century quicker than the likes of Luis Suárez, Michael Owen and even Robbie

Without those rare ice - forming triggers, much of the planet would see less precipitation than it does today.

As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the Arctic will remove less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.

Today both poles are getting warmer; in Greenland and Antarctica you can see the surface of the ice dropping, and you can see there's less mass when you measure the ice from space.

Intriguingly, that means water could potentially reach the surface from a deep crater, where there was less ice to get through — perhaps even from a crater like the one where Dawn saw the bright spot.

His organization would have liked to have seen less restrictive requirements for ships operating in areas of little ice, because of the possibility of unnecessary costs.

Of course, our study looks back in time and the future will be a very different place in terms of ice sheets and CO2 but it remains to be seen whether or not Earth's climate becomes more or less stable as we move forward from here.»

They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.

He said that sensitivity includes water vapour and arctic sea ice, but I suspect that the changes in sea ice in the models are much less than we are seeing in practice.

It's probably hard to imagine all of Manhattan tumbling into the Hudson River and washing away in less than five minutes, but that's the equivalent of what you'll see in the film «Chasing Ice, as a city's worth of towering icebergs collapse violently into the ocean... Read More

For instance, team member Linda Sohl used the GISS 3D model to see whether Earth circa 715 million years ago, with less carbon dioxide in the air, would be fully or partially covered in ice.

During its 19,000 miles in our (less than cosseting) care, our Four Seasons 2014 Ford Fiesta ST has seen plenty of abuse, from track days to ice racing to rallying.

Hopefully by then, we'll see a version with less glossy plastic, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Android Market access.

However recently I've found myself wavering on the issue of how fast we'll see a transition to a virtually sea ice free state (less than 1M km ^ 2 off the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the north of Greenland) and it's because of the PIOMAS volume results.

I'm concerned that little bits of info (e.g., more ice here, less ice there, sick animals here, winter storms there, and etc.) can be much more confusing than illuminating in the absence of a general understanding of the basic dynamics of global warming as (the majority of) scientists see them.

This particular scenario is fairly easy to spot and such soundings can be removed, but one can see the potential problems if many, less obvious errors are present or if the sensor had only a little bit of ice on it!

What we're seeing might be due to much more gas and less solids, pushing up through still hard - frozen material — blowing out a deep narrow hole with mostly gas bubbles and not all that much dirt / rock / ice.

-- I understand that less than 10 TW may be explained by ice melting... In order to «lodge» somewhere... this «puzzling 500 TW gap»... I do not see any other «spot» than the # 40 PW of latent heat flux that maintain the water cycle...

I'd like to see the earth green from pole to pole and the way to get there appears to require a phuckava lot more CO2 and a lot less ice.

Neither such a large increase or decrease, nor a recovery in less than a decade is seen in the d13C record: less than 0.1 per mil decrease in atmosphere (ice cores) and upper oceans (sponges) 1935 - 1950.

We see less short term predictions; «Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,» the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.

These preliminary results showed that, if current melt rates continue, the Arctic could see ice free periods during summer starting in less than 10 years.

The Great Lakes, North America's largest freshwater feature, have recently recorded higher water temperatures and less ice cover as a result of changes in regional climate (see also Ch.

The only other year on record that saw less sea ice in April was 2016.

I find it interesting to see that the HOC is increasing the strongest around antartica in the deep while the see ice area (not volume) shows slight increase and surface temperature is more or less constant.

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (see Section 12.4.6.1), some show large changes in the near term as well.

East Antarctica's ice sheet is about as thick as West Antarctica's, but the region sees much less snowfall, so the annual rings are wafer - thin or even indistinguishable.

What I am hearing is a see - saw process of less ice more atmospheric heat, more ice less atmospheric heat in the short term.

These conditions are quite similar to those also described for the Early Holocene at cores MSM5 / 5 -712-2 and NP05 -11-70GC (Fig. 7a, g; see Fig. 7e for core locations), i.e., very low PIP25 values of 0.2 and less, interpreted as almost ice - free conditions triggered by increased Atlantic Water inflow37, 38.

In the proxy records (ie the ice cores) the rise in CO2 is ~ 50x slower than what we see today, so any lag between source and atmosphere will have even less effect.

Loomborg presumes that the IPCC forecast will be realized, but I see the AGW as more or less a hoax and believe what many scientists think today, that we will have a cool climate the coming decades and maybe a little ice age.

For the sake of argument, it seems plausible that the late Holocene accumulation near B221v was less than the 135 other sites and has wasted away more quickly during the modern warm period, so that we're now seeing ice in this area more or less as it was in the later Holocene, when over 100 meters had eroded, but there was still something left.

Taylor also debunked the notion that less sea ice means less polar bears by pointing out that southern regions of the bears» home with low levels of ice are seeing booming bear populations.

Remember, in the not too distant past we've seen predictions from them about how global warming will soon be causing less or no snow, winters will disappear and how Arctic and Antarctic ice will soon be disappearing, right?

However, the more the ice compacts and the less that snow accumulates, the harder it is to see these annual layers.

It's still cutting - edge research and there's no smoking gun, but there's evidence that with less sea ice, you put a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, and the circulation of the atmosphere responds to that... We've seen a tendency for autumns with low sea ice cover to be followed by a negative Arctic Oscillation.

«Looking ahead, it is still a matter of when, rather than if, the Arctic will become ice - free in summer, but we expect to see periods where the ice melts rapidly and other times where it retreats less fast,» says Ed Hawkins, a climatologist at the University of Reading in the UK, commenting on the study.

«Now I think we're seeing a feedback that involves less sea ice that allows more heat to be transported into the atmosphere.»

If diffusion continued through time you would expect the further back in time you went in the ice cores the less you would see differences in the levels of the gas concentrations until at some point you would have a constant concentration.

If the ice cover is reduced, we may see increased internal wave energy, mixing, and heat flux in the deep ocean because less internal wave energy would be lost in the under - ice boundary layer.

Less see ice in autumn means more snowfall on the continents, which can have a larger impact on albedo.

If sea ice cover was 50 % less 5,000 years ago and polar bears were very much alive and well, it is hard to see how claims of their extinction are credible from future ice loss.

Those straits rarely see any ice, much less get frozen solid.