Sentences with phrase «thin icing forms»

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).

Not exact matches

Use a large palette knife and cake scraper to spread a thin layer of butter icing around the sides and top of the cake, then pipe rosettes tightly round the top edge (making sure there are no gaps as this will form the wall that will prevent the jelly escaping) and round the base using a large open star tip.

(1 egg white whipped up to form peaks, add 2 cups icing sugar and juice of 1/2 lemon - thicken with more icing sugar, thin with more lemon juice).

New calculations of the composition of TRAPPIST - 1f, the fifth planet from the star, suggest a relatively thin layer of water (still far deeper than anything found on Earth) gives way to ice VI and ice VII, two different forms of ice that can form under high pressures.

For example, Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has lost mass from melting and, in its thinner form, has less weight to speed the flow of its ice toward the sea.

But microscopic phytoplankton, which rely on the sun for their nutrients and form the base of Arctic food webs, have managed to thrive under ice sheets that are thinning as the poles become warmer.

The region's birth in a giant impact must have excavated so much ice from Pluto's surface that watery slush welled up from deeper within, plumping up to form a heavy, planetary - scale bruise beneath the thinner crust.

Making thin films out of semiconducting materials is analogous to how ice grows on a windowpane: When the conditions are just right, the semiconductor grows in flat crystals that slowly fuse together, eventually forming a continuous film.

He compares the task to pulling newly formed sheets of thin ice off a pond in winter.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

Once a thin sheet of ice forms on a lake in Antarctica, a «race» begins between (1) ice growing downward, and (2) snow building upward.

When icebergs are formed through the above mechanisms, long, thin icebergs are formed at the ice front.

However, the next morning the rear defroster struggled to melt off of the paper - thin layer of ice that have formed overnight.

The last thing Leah should be doing in a brothel is forming attachments, but as he gets closer to remote, reserved Gaius, he may be treading on thin ice.

Whirring into action, the printer's fine - tipped point shuttered into place while thin strips of clay successively pooled into the form of a human head, the way one might ice the perimeter of a cake.

The layers in multi-year ice (mainly formed when sheets of thin first - year ice pancake) do help baby seals, but polar bears happily walk on first - year ice thin enough to see through (don't take my word for it; watch the film Arctic Tale).

However, unless this winter is unusually cold, the ice will be very thin (as it will have had less time to form).

The key issue is that since last year's dramatic summer ice anomaly, the winter ice that formed in that newly opened water is relatively thin (around 1 meter), compared to multi-year ice (3 meters or so).

Any existing ice this year will form the basis of the multi-year ice, yes — but the sea forms at the bottom, in contact with sea water, and melts at the top — so at the end of next summer, all of this year's ice could have melted off the top, leaving only the new ice beneath, possibly thinner than this year.

Typically, during a positive phase of the AO, surface winds push ice away from the shores of Siberia, and any young, thin ice that is subsequently formed is prone to melting in summer.

As a result, at least a thin layer of ice will form, establishing a large extent of frozen ocean.

Since the spectacularly pronounced melting of 2007, a greater proportion of the Arctic Ocean has been covered by thin ice that is formed in a single season and is more vulnerable to slight temperature increases than older, thicker ice.

Ice that has formed since the last melt season — «known as first - year ice» — is thinner and more prone to melting than thicker multi-year iIce that has formed since the last melt season — «known as first - year ice» — is thinner and more prone to melting than thicker multi-year iice» — is thinner and more prone to melting than thicker multi-year iceice.

So every Arctic summer we should ship lots of vegetable matter from around the world into permafrost zones, spread it around in a very thin layer, and then during winter cause regional cooling with judicious release of aerosols, so as to form just enough new ice to trap that summer's carbon layer.

Once it rains or when there is sun the puddles form over the thinnest ice, so it is certainly a helpful find.

Thin, newly formed ice is consistently underestimated by these data.

Reasons that passive microwave data may not detect ice include the presence of thin, newly formed ice; the shift in albedo of actively melting ice; and atmospheric interference.

Starting in the 1980s, with each passing year the winter ice has formed later in the year, and become thinner.

Rifts usually form at the sides of an ice shelf where the ice is thin and subject to shearing that rips it apart.

Now, if thin ice in winter is loaded with lots of snow, the snow can «sink» the ice which then becomes flooded, forms a slushy mixture between ice and snow, which can freeze making the ice thicker.