Sentences with phrase «under the ice»

«The new data set will allow us to check if our ocean models can correctly represent changes in the flow of warm water under ice shelves,» he added.

Scientists have identified more than 145 other lakes trapped under the ice.

«For the first time, we can set a baseline on what lives under ice shelves,» she says.

The radar images also showed a layer of ash buried under the ice.

Scientists have already discovered enormous lakes deep under the ice, a result not predicted in any model.

After all, the estimated nine billion juvenile fish under the ice represent a substantial population.

If one wants to make the connection to global warming for this glacier, one will need to proof that ocean temperatures under the ice have increased.

[Response: There's no question that volcanic eruptions under the ice could make a difference, but they'd have to be in the right place, and they aren't.

Yet, what is driving such strong flows under the ice?

The first considered that the food web remained dormant for the largest portion of the winter under the ice cover.

The juvenile fish are assumed to travel along under the ice.

If The Canadian and American grain belts goes under ice, well, there may well be super ice lakes over them which could be home to huge numbers of fish.

The land under the ice sheet also adds another wrinkle.

Remove them after 1 - 2 minutes and cool down under ice cold water.

They discovered that the mud originated from rocks that are currently hidden under the ice sheet.

Such conditions would make photosynthesis impossible, both for the algae in the surface water directly under the ice and those dwelling deeper in the ice close to the ice - water interface.

Suddenly stopping he has time to breath before he disappears under the ice leaving nothing but his hat.

All the fish were in top condition, which suggests that there was enough food under the ice, making the sea ice a true nursery ground for polar cod.

Some scientists believe that microbes under the ice may have produced billions of tons of methane — a potent greenhouse gas that could escape as the ice retreats, causing warming to accelerate.

No one believes any of these things live under the ice today.

Place a towel under the ice to avoid skin irritation.

These elements along with some attacks that the monster can use from under the ice create a really fun fight that has a decent challenge to it.

I'd rather deal with the problems of farming in a warmer climate — including bugs and water shortages — than I would with the problems of farming under ice.

The hybrid remote operating vehicle can travel great distances under the ice, while still remaining under real - time human control.

Probably the fraction under ice sheets was around half.

The vast majority of land not under the ice sheet is rock and permafrost in the far north.

This means that ocean water can melt its way in and get right under the ice, and gravity won't stop it.

Note that the sediment types differ based on whether they were deposited under the ice or in open water.

Toss in a few miniature ice packs under the ice to ensure long - lasting cooling power.

In either case, as the ice grew, these microbes would have remained alive even as the sediment and lake were buried under ice.

According to the new model, and to evidence from surveys, melting will be complicated by the conditions deep under the ice.

Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.

Now, a team of scientists is offering a third way of collecting that data: from under the ice itself.

This could be good news for any life under the ice: such movements would deliver organic molecules on the surface to oceans that are otherwise completely sealed off.

Under the ice sheet the methane became stored as hydrate, a solid form of frozen methane.

Tiny algae called Marine Snow located under the ice in Antarctica may hold the key to understanding the food chain for a huge part of the ocean.

An ocean might lurk under the ice of Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this 2015 image from the Cassini spacecraft with Saturn and its rings in the background.

Mr Miller set up the rig of timelapse equipment to capture the growing brinicle under the ice at Little Razorback Island, near Antarctica's Ross Archipelago.

And despite having sat under ice for thousands of years, it still contained levels of oxygen that some marine animals, such as brittle stars and worms, can actually survive on.

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

The study, which was recently published in the journal Polar Biology, shows that only juvenile fish are found under the ice, a habitat the researchers fear could disappear as a result of climate change.

But a group of seismologists has detected new volcanic activity under the ice about 30 miles ahead of Mount Sidley in the direction of the range's migration.

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According to the NASA press release, the study «adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctic Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.»