Sentences with phrase «thick ice»

The interplay between mile - thick ice sheets, a warming atmosphere, and shifting oceanic currents has been a tough task for scientists to tackle.

This suggests delayed ice retreat due to thicker ice in the region.

This is especially true in one sequence in which he brings the ship to «crush depth» only to order an incredible fast surface into a solid sheet of thick ice.

The unusually thick ice cover took ships by surprise.

The remarkable expansion of open water there last summer was as much a result of old thick ice moving as it was of melting, as I wrote last fall.

And, differ between «young» (frozen last winter) and old ice (many years old very thick ice).

At the time, 2 km thick ice - cover loaded what now is the ocean floor with heavy weight.

What they do not know is how thick that ice is, a factor that strongly affects the prospects for life on this moon.

It makes thick icing that you want to use as an outline for your designs.

To decorate cookies with stripes and dots, use thicker icing and pipe designs as shown in photos.

The MY pack ice was much more mobile that in other years due to the lack of sufficiently thick ice to slow down dynamic processes.

Then, we predict the summer ice area depending on the assumption that thick ice remains later and thin ice melts sooner than the average.

Only thick ice can prevent this effect on the oceans.

40 minutes should be enough to make a creamy, thick ice cream.

That's important because thin ice comes and goes, melting faster in the summer, but the old thick ice should be here to stay.

Has the Northwest Passage actually been freezing back over with thicker ice than ever?

«The suggestion that the Earth was once entirely covered by ice — the continents by thick ice sheets and the oceans by thick sea ice — remains somewhat contentious,» says physicist Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto.

It is increasingly evident that we are on the cusp of both the next major ice age (as in 1 mile thick ice in Chicago and NYC) caused by the orbital eccentricity and the tilt of the Earth's axis (See Milankovitch cycles below) and the next mini ice age (see Maunder, and Dalton, or Rohrer minimum related to the location and number of sunspots (below)-RRB-.

NASA is gambling $ 4 billion that there's life beneath the thin atmosphere, lethal radiation, and miles - thick ice on Europa.

This lead opened through thick ice in front of many North Pole bound expeditions, causing a terrifying noise which lasted for several hours, as soon as it opened, sea water froze, it was very cold.

This winter, engineers are drilling holes into a frozen river, allowing water to seep up and freeze into thick ice blocks that should melt slowly and naturally cool the city come summer.

The relative thinness of the ice shell at the south pole could also allow a future space exploration mission to gather data, in particular using radar, which would be far more reliable and easy to obtain than with the 40 km thick ice shell initially calculated.

ANTARCTICA»S Blood Falls — the reddish outflow from the snout of the Taylor glacier — contain microbes that have survived beneath thick ice for millions of years.

Crevasses 20 meters wide opened across its surface as the 600 - meter - thick ice below stretched under the seaward deformation.

Now imagine an earth covered in a largely unknowable configuration of kilometers thick ice sheets.

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

Arctic climatic extremes include 25 °C hyperthermal periods during the Paleocene - Eocene (56 — 46 million years ago, Ma), Quaternary glacial periods when thick ice shelves and sea ice cover rendered the Arctic Ocean nearly uninhabitable, seasonally sea - ice - free interglacials and abrupt climate reversals.

None of it did any harm to our gear that we moored for 1 - 3 years on the ocean floor that can and often is scoured by 100 to 400 meter thick ice from glaciers, however, 2 - 3 meter thick sea ice prevented us to reach three mooring locations this year and our sensors are still, we hope, on the ocean floor collecting data.

Freeze 30 — 60 minutes for thicker ice cream.

About 34 million years ago, which coincides with a cooling of Earth's climate, big glaciers appeared, shaping the spectacular valley now hidden under thick ice.

In February — just three months after Britney Schmidt proposed the possibility of subglacial lakes within Europa's thick ice crust — Russian scientists announced that they had drilled through the ice to reach Vostok.

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

The answer to making thicker ice more quickly?

Climate scientists have detected various cycles that alternately drive thick ice out of the Arctic or confine and compress the ice.10 These cycles range from 6 to 20 years and are associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation / Arctic Oscillation.

What the scientists think happened was that the traditionally older, thicker ice around Greenland and the Canadian archipelago «just didn't melt away as much as it usually would» during the cooler summer conditions, «and it kind of just remained over the summer melt season,» Tilling said.

However, the geologist goes on to explain, «That being said, a chronological sequence of extremely extended thick ice sheets (similar to what Jakobsson et al. have postulated) followed by sea ice formation with polynyas seems to be possible, as the initial results of our own investigations on the southern Lomonosov Ridge have shown.

This most northerly point of the entire Northeast - Passage will be reached within this Friday, 4th of September: according to the analysis of the meteorologists thick ice blocks are to be expected in the southern area of the Vilkizki Strait as well as compact ice fields at the western exit and the entrance to the Kara Sea.

Synthetic aperture radar allowed the researchers to watch through thick steam and ash as heat released from the volcano melted the 650 - foot - thick ice at its summit.

This ice will lie next to the northern coasts of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic archipelago, the region where the oldest and thickest ice now occurs.

The trees are covered with hoar frost - which is when the branches are lined with thick ice crystals... it really is magical!

Typically, the snout, margins, sides, and surface ice are below the pressure - melting point, while thicker ice higher up in the accumulation area is warm - based [3].