Sentences with phrase «shelf ice in»

Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.

Not exact matches

With the sixth season of Game of Thrones set to air in April, Martin's publishers wanted the latest installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series to be on shelves by March.

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

They continue to use Canadian milk in an era when much of the «ice cream» on the shelves is really frozen dessert, more vegetable oil than cream.

FIX API connectivity is starting to break the ice shelf in fixed income and push a wave of new trading platforms and data & analytic solutions into the market.

A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

Nothing says Christmas like peppermint ice cream in my world — as soon as it hits the shelves, I've got a gallon in my freezer!

Throughout the years, the Nagles worked to improve the quality of halibut through the monitoring of bleeding and icing procedures, resulting in superior meat textures and a longer shelf life.

The yolks will also improve the stability of the ice cream, reducing its tendency to melt quickly, and they will prolong shelf life in the freezer, inhibiting the thaw - re-freeze cycle.

Each sister company of the group has its own Food Division, proposing a broad and complete product line to satisfy all expectations in terms of taste, yield, texture, appearance, consistency, safety, label and shelf - life for all main food applications, such as bakery, ice creams, milk derivates, dairy products, dessert and confectionery, drinks and beverages, sweet and savory snacks, meat and fish.

Our shelf stable bag - in - box concentrates offer a variety of flavors including sweet and unsweetened iced tea, sunrise punch, strawberry kiwi juice, classic lemonade, and more.

CCA has launched more than half a dozen new products in the last few months, including Barista Bros iced coffee, Zico coconut water, Grinders coffee pods, Perfect Fruit — a frozen fruit whip — and new bottled water brands that sell at a discount to Mount Franklin's, and enable the company to compete against the cheap private - label water filling supermarket shelves.

While Millennials also expressed high importance for clean label baked bread options, they ranked clean label in all other categories as almost equally important (sausages, snacks, ice cream, shelf stable sides and frozen meal).

In addition to posters, case cards, shelf talkers and end - aisle standups, neck hangers of life - like glasses of FrappaChata on ice are available to promote on - shelf.

Gold award winners included: Brazil's Froneri for a cardboard ice cream cup featuring a PP in - mold label, closure with spoon inside and aluminum / PE sealing; and Insignia Technologies for its Freshtag shelf - life indicator tag designed to change color over a pre-set number of days at a prescribed temperature, while the color change is faster when the temperature increases; and PPi Technologies for MosquitoPaQ, which uses a frangible sealed pouch that allows consumers to mix and activate the dry and wet chemicals at the time of use, without having to pour out or touch the contents; after activation, consumers hang the pouch nearby and leave it alone as the repellent is released over the course of 15 days.

The results show that with the partial replacement of sucrose with Beneo's functional carbohydrate Palatinose in glazings or icings, shelf - life and overall product quality can be significantly improved.

He is an unabashed collector of newspaper clippings, documents and gimcracks, and the walls and shelves in the office are blanketed with such oddments as ice axes and pitons, a photograph of John Glenn (whom Day resembles), a quotation from President Lyndon Johnson deploring procrastination, college diplomas, membership certificates from the Rotary Club, fraternities, outdoorsmen's clubs and the American Airlines» Admirals Club, and a number of framed letters from such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Stuart Udall.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

Although Tyler's team pulled its instruments out of the borehole in January 2013, the mooring that held the cable in place remains frozen into the ice shelf, he says — and the team hopes they can get back to it for a longer term monitoring project.

«It's a neat extra tool to have in our toolbox for looking at how ocean and ice shelves interact.»

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More than once we had lost one of our four engines, and in 1987 a giant crack became persistently visible along the edge of the Larsen B ice shelf, off the Antarctic Peninsula — making it abundantly clear that an emergency landing would be no gentle touchdown.

At that rate, much of the Wilkins ice shelf will be gone in a few years, says glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

«Antarctic ice rift spreads: New branch revealed in latest data from ice shelf.»

«The interesting thing is what happens next, how the remaining ice shelf responds,» said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park.

While Antarctic ice shelves are in direct contact with both the atmosphere and the surrounding oceans, and thus subject to changes in environmental conditions, they also go through repeated internally - driven cycles of growth and collapse.

Large sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf A and B, and the Wilkins1 ice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectiveIce Shelf A and B, and the Wilkins1 ice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectiveice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectively.

In particular, the study noted volume loss at the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves, which help buttress a large section of the EAIS.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

In aerial photographs taken before Prince Gustav disappeared, Sjögren Glacier was a smooth - surfaced plume that sloped gradually from the mainland far out into the fjord, inching toward the ice shelf and sea.

But the story in East Antarctica is still murky, they report; although the volume of its ice shelves has fluctuated significantly, they found no clear trend of volume loss during that time period.

But in the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves over on the eastern half of the ice sheet, the story was far less clear, Paolo says.

In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg.

Changes in mass, rather than height, control how the ice shelves and associated glaciers flow into the ocean,» Paolo said.

As winds strengthen, scouring will likely increase, potentially worsening the prognosis for ice shelves in a way no one anticipated.

To improve those simulations, Luckman says, scientists need to directly measure changes in the ice shelf, particularly while it is still in its initial response phase.

«If the fourth - largest ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrates, bigger ice shelves with bigger drainage basins could also be in danger,» Khazendar says.

«The new data set will allow us to check if our ocean models can correctly represent changes in the flow of warm water under ice shelves,» he added.

«We don't currently know what changed in 2014 that allowed this rift to push through the suture zone and propagate into the main body of the ice shelf,» said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University who has been studying the Larsen C ice shelf since 2008.

A study published in 2011 by Scambos, Truffer and Pettit found that one glacier continues to accelerate even 15 years after losing its ice shelf: Röhss Glacier (which used to flow into the Prince Gustav ice shelf) has now reached nine times its former speed.

But warming ocean waters have been eating away at the underside of these ice shelves, thinning them in many places and reducing their ability to buttress the ice.

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

Yet when Scambos and his team had returned in November 2010 to repair the station, they found the Scar Inlet ice shelf too crisscrossed with exposed crevasses for their plane to land.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

The Larsen Inlet ice shelf, a 350 - square - kilometer slab north of Larsen A, was present in a satellite photograph taken in 1986, but by the time another image was made in 1988, most of it was missing.

The crack remained dormant for decades, stuck in a section of the ice shelf called a suture zone, an area where glaciers flowing into the ice shelf come together.