Sentences with phrase «snow and ice remain»

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.

This is the kind of glacier that shows up on the map, but note snow and ice remain only rock.

Soot spewing from increasing shipping traffic plying Arctic waters could further darken whatever snow and ice remains.

Not exact matches

Remaining slush will freeze, causing icy roads and walkways, and Long Islanders should expect black ice where there isn't slush or snow, the statement said.

While the odds of flooding are lower than last week, when heavy rain fell and snow melted in 60 degree temperatures, the potential for ice jam flooding remains elevated.

The ice sheet is made up of snow that falls and never melts, but rather remains year after year and is gradually compressed into ice.

The ice was formed by the precipitation that fell as snow from the clouds and remained year after year, gradually being compressed into ice.

Research reported in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, which has directly observed microbial activity in Antarctic and Arctic snow, has revealed that the composition of these small samples of gas trapped in the ice may have been affected by bacteria that remain active in snow while it is being compressed into ice — a process that can last decades.

John, who works at a major US museum, will remain anonymous to protect him from the jealous rage this picture will incite across the snow - and ice - covered East Coast.

(In the full 4 - dimensional climate, responses can also tend spread horizontally by convection (advection) and temporally by heat capacity, though «fingerprints» of horizontal and temporal variations in RF (externally imposed and feedback — snow and ice albedo, for example) can remain — this spreading is somewhat different as it relies in part on the circulation already present as well as circulation changes)

The snow and ice feedback is generally positive and becomes very large at very cold temperatures; obviously it approaches zero when the temperature is sufficiently warm that very little snow or ice remain and when they occur when and where there is little solar radiation to reflect.

The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

So the ~ 3 % of total Planetary water that is «fresh» will see the alterations that there could be ~ 2 % as LIQUID and ~ 1 % as «trapped» (including remaining Snow and Ice).

Black carbon particles attract heat, warming the air around them if they remain suspended, and melting snow and ice if they settle on glaciers.

Meier et al. (National Snow and Ice Data Center); 4.74 Million Square Kilometers; Statistical Prediction by Stroeve et al. shown in the June outlook remains unchanged since it was based on spring ice age fields and an average summer circulation patteIce Data Center); 4.74 Million Square Kilometers; Statistical Prediction by Stroeve et al. shown in the June outlook remains unchanged since it was based on spring ice age fields and an average summer circulation patteice age fields and an average summer circulation pattern.

Next year, I expect sea ice free conditions in the Arctic based on heat transport via water vapor in the Arctic atmosphere, storm conditions driven by latent heat in the atmosphere, and a good deal of snow this fall that insulates sea ice and permafrost from the cold, thereby allowing them to remain warm and weak.

«Most of Scotland has been issued severe weather warnings for ice, and temperatures are expected to remain low, causing problems with snow and ice across the country.»

Middle of June onwards «the melting of the snow and ice took place very quickly although the air temperature remained close to freezing» «the sun shone... could walk about without a coat... some even tried to get a sun tan.»

He remains optimistic, noting that while last winter brought snow and ice to Milwaukee, the majority of days were still clear and bikeable.

Air in the snow / firn phase remains in contact with surface air until it turns to ice and seals off air bubbles from further mixing with surface air.

Stephen Wilde (01:17:40): thus the average time that a water molecule remains in the air in vapour form, or in the ocean as a liquid or in ice and snow as a solid.

Instead it is a composite of the rates of evaporation and condensation, melting and freezing and thus the average time that a water molecule remains in the air in vapour form, or in the ocean as a liquid or in ice and snow as a solid.

If you are driving in the ice and snow, you need to take extra precautions to remain safe while on the road.