The phrase
"thinning ice" means that the ice is getting thinner or melting, suggesting that a situation is becoming more dangerous or unstable.
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I think they are living
on thin ice with the amount of AC games.
He compares the task to pulling newly formed sheets
of thin ice off a pond in winter.
Tomorrow we might just go ahead and turn north before hitting the coast because we think we see
thin ice in front of us.
You are now walking on very
thin ice with me, and my weight is increasing every damn day.
The fact that game companies had to invent virtual currencies for these transactions is an indirect but clear proof that they too are aware that they're on
very thin ice here.
Computer models of ice thickness, and maps of sea ice age both indicated a much
thinner ice pack at the end of winter.
As one researcher admits, if you're heading
for thin ice, you want a native elder, not an ice scientist, at your side.
You may know, that arctic sea ice has a high recovery capacity: some colder years are enough to restore it,
because thin ice grows faster than old ice.
That's more like a farmer beating his horse for being smart enough not to go
over thin ice.
It is important to understand the limits of the current theories and data so that we don't get out
onto thin ice with our conclusions.
Then, we predict the summer ice area depending on the assumption that thick ice remains later and
thin ice melts sooner than the average.
Less ice makes warmer water, which
makes thinner ice, which melts easier, which makes warmer water... and so on.
That's important because
thin ice comes and goes, melting faster in the summer, but the old thick ice should be here to stay.
I suspect that larger tidal currents over shallow water mix ocean heat up to the surface to keep these waters covered by water or
dangerously thin ice.
Even though most spots are frozen over, some areas are hollow
underneath thin ice, so it's best to go with a local who knows the area and can judge the conditions.
It's really annoying when the temperature changes suddenly creating a layer
of thin ice like dust made with ice, inside.
But bigger gap will put you on a
very thin ice, and you are likely to encounter problems in your search.
«Europa is the most promising in terms of habitability because of its relatively
thin ice shelf and [the presence of] an [underground] ocean.»
In fact, said her NSIDC colleague Walt Meier in a press release, «The strong late season decline [in area] is indicative of
how thin the ice cover is.
They also deliver a scathing indictment of the media, American class consciousness, and its corrosive impact on a superlative athlete who was apparently on
thin ice from the get go.
However, the discovery in 2015 of an oscillation in Enceladus's rotation known as a libration, which is linked to tidal effects, suggests that it has a global ocean and a much
thinner ice shell than predicted, with a mean thickness of around 20 km.
Circulation fields for May through June resulted in hot air masses from south Asia and Africa entering Siberia and the Russian Arctic, as well as increasing sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the North - East Atlantic domain, subjecting the
relatively thin ice cover to rapid melting.
As the greenhouse effect
thinned the ice caps, Arctic air temperatures were rising, driving polar winds south and east.
However, you could be treading on
thin ice if the circumstances are not in your favour.
A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and
thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap.
This year's record - breaking temperatures have robbed the Arctic of its winter, sending snowmobilers plunging through
thin ice into freezing rivers and forcing deliveries of snow to the starting line of Alaska's legendary Iditarod dogsledding race.
In the bedroom, closets, hallway and office I'm going to use Silver Feather PPG 1002 - 1, and in the bathroom I'll
use Thin Ice PPG1001 - 3.
Volume, in contrast, is crucial in determining the vulnerability of Arctic sea ice to rapid future reductions (
since thin ice is much more prone to react strongly to a single warm summer, making single very - low sea - ice summers more likely), and the thickness of the ice determines the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere.
However, it's quite a different matter melting a long - lived massive ice sheet up to 1.5 km thick that covers over 70 % of the land surface (as happened at the end of the last glacial period), from melting isolated and
much thinner ice caps / sheets that only cover about 11 % of the land surface (i.e. present - day).»
Thin ice also allowed the first commercial ship, the MV Camilla Desgagnes to traverse the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in September, delivering cargo to Inuit villages.