Sentences with phrase «thick ice blocks»

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.

Not exact matches

The wide, middle ring known as the B ring — one of the easiest to see from Earth through telescopes because it is densely packed with chunks of bright water ice — looks dark in these images because it is so thick that it blocks almost all of the sunlight shining behind it.

Last Friday afternoon, on a conference call hosted by the National Research Council to present a recent report on the Arctic region, Stephanie Pfirman, an environmental science professor at Barnard College, said Arctic ice coverage is shrinking and that thicker sea ice blocks, which anchor much of the landscape, are rapidly melting.

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available in the adjacent bay and enhanced sensitivity of ice - shelf melting to water temperatures at intermediate depth, as a seabed ridge blocks the deepest and warmest waters from reaching the thickest ice.

After reading Julienne Stroves blog it sems unlikely that such a huge block of ice, 30 miles by 12 miles and 85 feet thick, could be wandering round the arctic as they certainly hadnt seen any, and have commented that the satellites appears to be showing more ice than actually exists.