Sentences with phrase «southern ice cap»

Well this year, you wont get the northern ice cap back to where it was in 2007 and the southern ice cap is liable to be well up.

The «strange journey» refers to an expedition initiated by a multi-national coalition to explore a mysterious situation near the southern ice cap.

Remote sensing is already revealing the shape of a huge mountain range hidden beneath the southern ice cap.

The Mars Orbiter Camera tracked the changing seasons as the first chill of winter gripped the Northern hemisphere and warm spring winds began shrinking the Southern ice cap.

Finally, if the North American hydrologic cycle is enhanced, and / or Greenland's southern ice caps melt, the increased fresh water runoff from land areas could dilute the ocean surface water and critically reduce its salinity.

Not exact matches

Thompson's Ohio State University team returned to the Quelccaya ice cap in the southern Andes in 2003 to drill a new set of ice cores.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

The analyses of two ice cores from a southern tropical ice cap provide a record of climatic conditions over 1000 years for a region where other proxy records are nearly absent.

The exhibition includes one of Thiel's largest works to date, a 30 - foot long, five - panel photograph of the leading edge of the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the worIce Field, the third largest ice cap in the worice cap in the world.

(São Paulo, Brazil) Gallery welcomes German artist Frank Thiel, for his second solo exhibition, product of his many visits to Patagonia, where he turned his camera on the massive glacial ice formations in the Parque National Los Glaciares in Argentine, Patagonia, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the worice formations in the Parque National Los Glaciares in Argentine, Patagonia, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the worIce Field, the third largest ice cap in the worice cap in the world.

Tad Pfeffer (9)-- I doubt that there are any (significant) marine grounded glaciers in Alaska or as part of the Southern Patagonian ice cap.

Also, I believe we are seeing the beginning of a new glacial southern migration, the Arctic ice cap has thinned and the surface mass has been on the increase which to me is indicative of a glacial formation

With green features in its construction and even greener intentions, it's a great addition to the tourism circuit in the very popular southern area of the country.Located at 5 kilometers from El Calafate and surrounded by The Glaciers National Park, Glaciarium attempts to add some extra meaning to the amazing natural beauty that surrounds it: the park in which it's located is around 4,500 sq kilometers and comprises 47 glaciers, the largest ice cap outside Antarctica and Greenland.

The analyses of two ice cores from a southern tropical ice cap provide a record of climatic conditions over 1000 years for a region where other proxy records are nearly absent.

Also, apparently the Vikings could sail directly to what is now the W. shore of Greenland by going through the channels of the archipelago that the southern tip of Greenland consisted of — no such islands are evident now, as they are covered by the ice cap.

AFAIK man was certainly on the planet long before the end of the last ice age, when there was an ice cap covering a great deal of the Northern hemisphere land mass (I don't know about the Southern).

After all, at the same time the Arctic was melting, the Antarctic Ice Cap at the South Pole was setting a record for the greatest extent of polar ice in observed history and at the same time South America and much of the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing the coldest and longest winter in at least 50 yeaIce Cap at the South Pole was setting a record for the greatest extent of polar ice in observed history and at the same time South America and much of the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing the coldest and longest winter in at least 50 yeaice in observed history and at the same time South America and much of the Southern Hemisphere was experiencing the coldest and longest winter in at least 50 years.