Sentences with phrase «several ice thickness»

They have several ice thickness measurements varying from just 6 points (1990) to more than dozen.

Not exact matches

Ambient geothermal heat emanating up from the seafloor melts the underside of the ice sheet at a rate of several penny thicknesses per year.

The lakes are fed by geothermal heat that seeps up from the Earth's interior, melting away the bottom of the ice sheet at a rate of several dime - thicknesses per year and liberating water from the ice.

I know that, such as East Antarctica, which ice sheet's thickness could reach several kilometers therefore huge pressure and geothermal flux results in melting, then the subglacial lakes and water channels.

Almost all state - of - the - art AOGCMs now include more elaborate sea ice dynamics and some now include several sea ice thickness categories and relatively advanced thermodynamics.

Several researchers have looked at the «open water formation efficiency» during the melt season, and have found a relationship with the mean March ice thickness.

The complete absence of multiyear sea ice in the region, confirmed by thickness surveys and local observations, is a first for the region in the past several decades.

The thickness of Arctic sea ice has also been on a steady decline over the last several decades.

While the ice thickness is generally thinner in May 2016 compared to previous years, the air temperature has been several degrees above the last 10 year mean in the northern North Atlantic and the Beaufort Sea, but colder in the Eastern Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea causing the described melt pond pattern.

As surface temperture is altitude dependent one might have thought the first thing to check would be a map, as the arctic ice lies at sea level + 9 % of its thickness, while the antarctic ice sits several kilometers high in the sky, and the surrounding apron of the stuff is immune to windage because of the circumpolar continent in its midst.

For the Arctic, there are several techniques available for estimating the thickness distribution of sea ice.

6) There are still insufficient observations of ice thickness to quantify the basin - wide and long - term rate of ice - volume change over the past several decades.

This year, several airborne campaigns, including the German - Canadian - US collaborative effort PAMARCMIP (see Figure 4), the NASA IceBridge flights, and others have collected ice thickness or surface topography data in the North American Arctic.

This year, several airborne campaigns have collected ice thickness or surface topography data in the North American Arctic.