Sentences with phrase «small sheet of ice»

An emaciated polar bear is seen on a small sheet of ice in this image taken in August in Svalbard, north of mainland Norway.

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There are more, however, including the amount of sunlight an ice sheet is able to reflect; the larger an ice sheet, the more sunlight is reflected, but the smaller an ice sheet, the more ocean there is surrounding the ice sheet to absorb the sunlight which in turn heats up the surrounding waters increasing the melt which decreases the size of the ice sheet which in turn... and so goes the cycle.

Using a small ice - cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop 2 - inch mounds of dough onto sheet pans lined with parchment paper.

Using a small ice - cream scoop or tablespoon (15 ml), drop small mounds of the mixture onto the cookie sheets about 1 inch (2.5 cm) apart.

-- On a lower speed, add eggs one at a time and vanilla until well incorporated — Increase mixing speed to high and let it go for 10 minutes — the mixture will become really pale and will almost double in size — In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt — When 10 minutes are up, add flour mixture slowly until just combined, about 45 - 60 seconds — Chop up and mix together all of your baking and snack ingredients in a small bowl, and fold into batter with a spatula until just incorporated — Using a medium - sized ice cream scoop, portion cookie dough on parchment paper - lined cookie sheet and wrap the entire thing tightly with plastic wrap — Refrigerate for a minimum of 1 hour and up to 1 week — Heat oven to 400F and arrange cookies on cookie sheets at least 4 ″ apart — Bake 9 - 11 minutes, until they are golden in color and slightly brown along the edges — Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pan (or just eat them immediately...)

Using two spoons or a small ice cream scoop, form the dough into balls the size of walnuts and place them on the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.

While the dough is still warm, use a small spring - form ice cream scoop to shape individual balls (straight out of the pan) and place the balls on parchment - lined sheet pans.

Scoop and drop using small ice - cream scoop or teaspoon onto baking sheet about two inches apart — they will be more of a free - form cookie in a slight ball shape.

Rest a balloon or beach ball on top of a cone (use a small toy traffic cone, a large funnel, or even just a sheet of heavy paper rolled up) and have kids walk or run while keeping their ice cream cone intact.

«Very old ice probably exists in small isolated patches at the base of the ice sheet that have not yet been identified, but in many places it has probably melted and flowed out into the ocean.»

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

The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

The other study in Nature — led by Joerg Schaefer of Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Columbia University, and colleagues — looked at a small sample of bedrock from one location beneath the middle of the existing ice sheet and came to what appears to be a different conclusion: Greenland was nearly ice - free for at least 280,000 years during the middle Pleistocene — about 1.1 million years ago.

Melting of the smaller Greenland Ice Sheet can only explain a fraction of this sea - level rise, most which must have been caused by retreat on Antarctica.»

«The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, now is fragmented into smaller floes that are more exposed to warm ocean waters.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Most of the ice was lost from the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet.

New research shows that small fluctuations in the sizes of ice sheets during the last ice age were enough to trigger abrupt climate change.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

Carys Cook, co-author and research postgraduate from the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial, adds: «Scientists previously considered the East Antarctic ice sheet to be more stable than the much smaller ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, even though very few studies of East Antarctic ice sheet have been carried out.

And while the Wind River Range is the headwaters of tributaries feeding the Colorado, Missouri and Snake rivers, glaciologists say the ice sheets» contributions to those basins are relatively small.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Recent projections show that for even the lowest emissions scenarios, thermal expansion of ocean waters21 and the melting of small mountain glaciers22 will result in 11 inches of sea level rise by 2100, even without any contribution from the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

Rapidly increasing melt from Greenland and Antarctica may also contribute although ice sheet contribution is a small part of sea level rise.

Indeed, within the Baltic Sea, the multitude of small Alaskan Glaciers actually now contributes more to local sea - level rise than the massive Greenland ice sheet.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

The differences are that the UVic model has a smaller forcing from the ice sheets, possibly because of an insufficiently steep lapse rate (5ºC / km instead of a steeper value that would be more typical of dryer polar regions), and also a smaller change from increased dust.

We asked Tranter to speculate about the source of the microbes, and he suggested they may have reached their present home at least half a million years ago, when the ice sheet was much smaller.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet first formed as a small ice cap (maybe several) in the early Oligocene, but retreating and advancing many times until the Pliocene, when it came to occupy almost all of AntarctiIce Sheet first formed as a small ice cap (maybe several) in the early Oligocene, but retreating and advancing many times until the Pliocene, when it came to occupy almost all of Antarctiice cap (maybe several) in the early Oligocene, but retreating and advancing many times until the Pliocene, when it came to occupy almost all of Antarctica.

The notch of water in the black and white cross-section of the ice might not look like much, but the small pools of water that persist through the winter have the potential to have large impacts on the sheet's durability.

This number may seem small, but from 2005 to 2010, Alaskan glacier losses made up one third of the world's ice sheet losses, despite having 20 times fewer ice - covered areas than Greenland.

Using a small ice - cream soup, drop mounds of the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches [5 cm] apart.

Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop tablespoons of the dough into balls, roll in the organic coconut palm sugar and place on the prepared baking sheets.

Directions Preheat oven to 375 ° Core and slice the apple into 8 pieces Separate dough into triangles, place on a greased cookie sheet Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl Brush melted butter onto dough, sprinkle on brown sugar and cinnamon mixture Place apple slice at the long end of the triangle and roll up Brush a little butter on top, sprinkle with cinnamon Bake for 12 - 15 minutes, until roll ups are golden brown and apples are soft Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and enjoy!

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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.

A smaller ice sheet extent might still respond with the observed high rate of sea level rise (5 m per century) if the warming is much more rapid than when ice sheets were more extensive.

For example, how much confidence can we really have in results from ice sheet models, which very likely miss important mechanisms (e.g., due to limited understanding of ocean - ice shelf interactions, calving physics and influence of small - scale topography)?

So unless the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet is the exact same thickness as the entire ice sheet (say 3 km on average), an area loss there, of 15 %, will produce a much smaller % volume loss, than say if this area loss were smack dab in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

While the breakup and slipping of ice sheets is a small part of sea rise now, he wrote last year, it could easily accelerate under the heating from a «business as usual» path for emissions.

The Jakobshavn Glacier is a monster on a human scale, but in terms of getting rid of the Greenland Ice Sheet fast it's one of a small number of pretty tiny slots.

Indeed, the paleoclimate record contains numerous examples of ice sheets yielding sea level rise of several meters per century, with forcings smaller than that of the BAU scenario.

Because the drains out of the various bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance of the surface and oceans, ice sheet accumulations, and thermal expansion of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that, on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.

That doesn't mean that the IPCC thinks the possibility of ice sheet melt is small, just that there is a large uncertainty in how likely it is.

Most of the grounded West Antarctic ice sheet drains into the floating Ross and Ronne - Filchner ice shelves, but a significant fraction also drains into the much smaller Pine Island Glacier.

Tell me what's wrong with this logic: The only thing keeping Greenland frozen is the ring of mountains surrounding the ice sheet, which keeps lower, warmer air from reaching the ice except at small breaks in the mountains.

The only thing keeping Greenland frozen is the ring of mountains surrounding the ice sheet, which keeps lower, warmer air from reaching the ice except at small breaks in the mountains.