Sentences with phrase «thin ice shows»

On thin ice shows the life of hunters and fishermen in the remote villages of Northern Greenland.

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Draxler would've been the icing on the cake but Ox will have good confidence knowing that the depth at his position is as thin as ever... hopefully he can kick start his career and show his talent this season consistently!!

Satellite images show that Larsen C has been receding since the 1980s, and radar measurements suggest that its ice is also thinning, Rignot says.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

Satellite observations also showed that this winter's ice cover is slightly thinner than in recent years.

Results published in May show this region crossed an invisible threshold in 2009, with a dozen major glaciers simultaneously starting to thin, sweating off 60 billion tons of ice per year.

Golombek helped SpaceX whittle its list to a handful of sites, including Arcadia Planitia and Deuteronilus Mensae, which show signs of having pure water ice buried beneath a thin layer of soil.

Satellite and on - the - ground studies have previously shown that Totten Glacier and its buttressing ice shelf are thinning.

Pritchard et al. used a combination of satellite laser altimetry and modelling of the surface firn layer to show ice - shelf thinning around Antarctica as a result of increased basal melt.

The WHOI's voyage to the bottom of the sea shows it is climate alarmists who are skating on thin ice.»

Our Tietsche, et al., 2011 paper basically shows that both extent and volume can recover on similar time scales after extreme loss events, in particular for the thin ice that we have around nowadays.

What both papers show is that the thinning and acceleration and consequent ice loss is widespread, and not just associated with a few glaciers.

It's worth bearing in mind that despite the increase in area export, volume export through Fram shows no trend, e.g. Spreen et al: http://soa.arcus.org/abstracts/fram-strait-sea-ice-volume-export-estimated-between-2003-and-2008-satellite-data This is because the ice being exported has thinned even as area export has increased.

The study, published online August 6 in Geophysical Research Letters, shows that the current thinning of Arctic sea ice has actually been going on for quite some time....»

One spot may be like winter with strange looking sublimated or jagged snow (as with the NOAA picture), the other very wet with water pools everywhere, nothing is uniform, everything depends on everything else, ice thickness for example, the NOAA webcam shows a very small area, most likely chosen for its thickness (they do nt put things on thin ice).

Here's the main graphic, which shows the dramatic recent expansion of open water (dark blue) at the peak of summer melt, and the decline in thick old ice (white is ice that is over five years old) and thin ice formed the previous winter (light blue).

The latest research shows that while a decades - long trend toward thinner and sparser ice looks to continue, with warming from greenhouse gases and soot contributing to the change, expect a lot of variability along the way to a projected open - water summertime Arctic.

A few months later, another study was published by the University of Washington based on submarine observations that showed that the ice wasn't just shrinking — it was also becoming thinner.

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The May 21 view of Arctic sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, showing early ice thinning and melting.

Sea ice coverage in the fjord ranges from thicker, white ice seen in the background, to thinner grease ice and leads showing open ocean water in the foreground.

Varying thicknesses of sea ice are shown here, from thin, nearly transparent layers to thicker, older sea ice covered with snow.

The results, published in the journal The Cryosphere, show that ice in the central Arctic Ocean thinned a stunning 65 percent between 1975 and 2012 - that's a drop from 11.7 feet (3.59 meters) to 4.1 feet (1.25 m).

Radar ice - thickness estimates of the Arctic Sea ice showed that it had been thinning for years, just as they had also shown that the northern coastal glaciers of Greenland were thinning.

[1] Arctic sea ice has been in decline since at least the 1970s due to climate change, and research shows the thinning is accelerating.

«Regression maps of SIM during the wintertime (January — March) AO index show 1) an increase in ice advection away from the coast of the East Siberian and Laptev Seas, which should have the effect of producing more new thin ice in the coastal flaw leads; 2) a decrease in ice advection from the western Arctic into the eastern Arctic; and 3) a slight increase in ice advection out of the Arctic through Fram Strait.

Overall, the curve shown in Figure 4 is commensurate with the notion that a thinner arctic ice cover that is more mobile can lead to greater seasonal and interannual variability, with a potential loss in predictability.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is also showing some signs of thinning.

(09/23/2009) Resaerchers examining 43 million satellite measurements of Antarctica's thinning ice sheets and 7 million of Greenland's, show that the ice is melting faster than expected.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liIce Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

Studies made at the State Hydrological Institute, Russia, comparing the horizon of 2010 to 2015 with the control period 1950 to 1979, show that ice cover duration on the rivers in Siberia would be shorter by 15 to 27 days and maximum ice cover would be thinner by 20 to 40 % (Vuglinsky and Gronskaya, 2005).

Arctic «sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s» — Analysis of Arctic ice: «Russian data shows that the [Arctic] ice was just as thin in 1940 as it is now.

Similarly Greenland's snowfall accumulation is at all time highs and recent GRACE results show that after several years of accelerated ice loss due to glacier thinning, the net loss from Greenland in 2013 - 2014 was insignificant.

Presenting a thin veneer of objectivity, he quotes polar bear researcher Ian Stirling who suggested that Nicklen's photo shows a bear that most likely, but not certainly, died as a result of starvation related to sea ice melt.

Airborne data showed the ice shelf was up to 492 feet (150 meters) thinner when the warmer water was present, allowing Bindschadler's team to establish a direct link between the rate of ice shelf melting and atmospheric wind speed.

During the high - AO years that follow (1991 and on), this younger thinner sea ice is shown to recirculated back to the Alaskan coast where extensive open water has been observed during summer.

The result has been a mountain of research all showing the same thing: under the thinning of ice is a whole lot of nothing, and that's not good news.

Last year UK researchers showed that the ice has also markedly thinned in recent years.

A preliminary evaluation of the measurement results shows that one - year - old sea ice in the Beaufort Sea (north of Canada / Alaska) is about 20 — 30 centimetres thinner this year than in the two previous years.

Ice - shelf thinning is now shown to influence glacial movement over much larger distances than previously thought.

Meanwhile, they said in interviews and in the summary, evidence of increasing warming has shown up in retreating glaciers, thinning polar sea ice, retreating snow packs, warmer nights, and elsewhere.

Twenty of them show signs of thinning and weakening, which translates into accelerated ice loss.

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A high - resolution radar map shows Thwaites Glacier's thinning ice shelf.

From 1912 - 2007, the mountain's iconic glaciers have decreased some 85 %, with 26 % of glacier present in 2000 now gone: The report goes on to show that from 2000 - 2007 the amount of thinning at the summits of the Northern and Southern Ice Fields was 1.9 m and 5.1 m respectively, or a decline of 3.6 % and 24 %.

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Satellite measurements from NASA show that in 2008, Arctic sea ice was thinner than 2007, and likely reached a record low volume.