Sentences with phrase «small icebergs»

Gudmandsen — new Petermann ice island expected to enter Hall Basin within the next week; moderate flow of ice through Nares Strait including the Petermann ice island and smaller icebergs from Humboldt glacier will impact tourist vessels trying to reach Hans Island

So far the disentegration of smaller ice shelves on the Antartic Peninsula has increased the number of smaller icebergs, but not the large tabular icebergs that can travel quite far north.

Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

By contrast, during the last ice age, hundreds of comparatively smaller icebergs broke free of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and drifted into Pine Island Bay.

All that was left of the massive ice shelf were small icebergs as far as the eye could see.

Multiple smaller icebergs will also likely accompany the primary one, posing a threat to shipping routes near the southern tip of South America.

The ships have been encountering small icebergs and rafts of sea ice since they passed through the Bering Strait last weekend, company officials say.

Large and small icebergs pack the narrow fjord in the right part of the images.

The study said the giant icebergs had an outsized impact in promoting ocean fertilization when compared with small icebergs.

Aoraki at sunset, with Hooker Lake and small icebergs in the foreground.

Predictions made by British Antarctic Survey scientists in 1998 that the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula region would put several ice shelves at risk were realized in 2002 when, in less than a month, 500 billion metric tons of ice from the Larsen B ice shelf broke up into thousands of small icebergs.

Their analysis showed that these smaller icebergs were released due to a process called marine ice - cliff instability (MICI).

These smaller icebergs had a v - shaped structure like the keel of a ship, and left long and deep single scars in the sea floor.

I have to wait briefly while another of Land Rover's Scots clears a small iceberg from the floe, then it's down the steep, icy bank and into water that was made on a glacier.

Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33 °, the murals range from the humorous, an image of tourists wandering aimlessly across an aqua blue expanse, to a sobering, a black fissure opening stark and deep in what we are to assume is an arctic ice sheet, to the iconic, a lonely polar bear drifting on a small iceberg.

We now provide a new database which contains the small iceberg (< 3 km in length) detected by altimeters using the high resolution waveforms.

A sculpture of a polar bear and cub, afloat on a small iceberg, passes in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, England, in 2009.

Well, at least they didn't include a touchy - feely photo of mama polar bear and her cubs supposedly stranded on a small iceberg.

Smaller icebergs, known as bergy bits and growlers, can be especially dangerous for ships because they are harder to spot.

Scientists test their equipment on a small iceberg during the 2006 IceTrek expedition.