Sentences with phrase «volume of ice in»

In just the past 5 years the minimum volume of ice in the Arctic was slashed in half.

The volume of ice in the Arctic is less than it has been at any time during the history of mankind.

So that, while the surface area may be greater this year compared with last year, the volume of ice in the Arctic this year is probably already less than at the same time last year.

He said weather scientists have known there was a relationship between ice and lightning, but were learning new details by studying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite images which can look at both the number of lightning strikes and the volume of ice in a cloud at the same time.

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for example... you can go back in ice core samples as far as 800,000 years, and still locked in the ice is a tiny amount of the atmoshpere from that time, telliing us volumes of information.

' «In the final volume, The Big Chunk of Ice, the boys thwart a jewel heist when the professor flies them to Europe in his blimp to look at a glacieIn the final volume, The Big Chunk of Ice, the boys thwart a jewel heist when the professor flies them to Europe in his blimp to look at a glaciein his blimp to look at a glacier.

Churn for 25 minutes, or until doubled in volume with the consistency of soft - serve ice cream.

In 2013, Euromonitor reported that U.S. volume sales of iced coffee grew 25 percent over the previous year.

I used 4 teaspoons in this ice cream, partly because of the volume of milk and cream that I was using, and partly because I wanted the green tea flavour to get noticed.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

The fifth and sixth planets, both in the habitable zone, are more than half water — a volume so large that the water pressure alone could force much of it into a form of ice, Unterborn says.

The thickness of the ice, and its overall volume, may be a more important measure of what is happening in the Arctic over the long term, even though it is not as simple to measure, said Overland.

In particular, the study noted volume loss at the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves, which help buttress a large section of the EAIS.

But the story in East Antarctica is still murky, they report; although the volume of its ice shelves has fluctuated significantly, they found no clear trend of volume loss during that time period.

«That may not sound like a lot, but consider the volume of ice now locked up in the planet's three greatest ice sheets,» she writes in a recent issue of Scientific American.

By piecing together an 18 - year record of ice shelf thinning from three different sets of satellite data, the researchers found that some ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 % of their volume in the last 2 decades.

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

In fact, for temperature the major step toward the ice ages that have characterised the past two to three million years was a cooling event at 2.7 million years ago, but for ice - volume the crucial step was the development of the first intense ice age at around 2.15 million years ago.

The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years to come.

In that sense, the observed decoupling of temperature and ice - volume changes provides crucial new information for our understanding of how the ice ages developed.

In this model, the ocean beneath the ice makes up 40 % of the total volume of the moon, while its salt content is estimated to be similar to that of Earth's oceans.

The volume of ice divergence has doubled since 2000 due to a more mobile ice cover as multiyear ice has declined, which can explain the drastic ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

Scientists have examined ice cores dating back some 800,000 years and have documented numerous times when increases in summer insolation took place, but not all of them resulted in deglaciation to present - day ice volumes.

In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todaIn a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than todain periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.

This glacial meltwater lake was enclosed in ice and experienced a massive breach during this period, which emptied an enormous volume of water into the ocean,» explains Herrle.

A 2013 computer simulation of this process found increased aerosols alone did result in more lightning due to ice crystal collisions, although at very large aerosol volumes the effect was muted.

The radar can measure the surface height variation of ice in fine detail, allowing scientists to record changes in its volume with unprecedented accuracy.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenlaice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of GreenlaIce Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

At the end of this summer, only a quarter of the Arctic Ocean was still covered in ice, a record low in modern times, and the total volume of ice was just a fifth of what it was three decades ago (see «Record Arctic ice loss»).

In some sense, the search for a theory of glacial - interglacial cycles amounts to a search for the «rectifier» which turns the modulation of the amplitude of the seasonal forcing into a rectified signal in global ice volumIn some sense, the search for a theory of glacial - interglacial cycles amounts to a search for the «rectifier» which turns the modulation of the amplitude of the seasonal forcing into a rectified signal in global ice volumin global ice volume.

«Conversely, there is more and better evidence across Iceland that when the ice sheet underwent major reduction at the end of the last glacial period, there was a large increase in both the frequency and volume of basalt erupted — with some estimates being 30 times higher than the present day.

Sea level rise has two primary components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.

Abstract: Mid - to late - Holocene sea - level records from low - latitude regions serve as an important baseline of natural variability in sea level and global ice volume prior to the Anthropocene.

Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.

Average sea ice volume in November was 7,880 cubic km, beating the previous record of 8,276 cubic km, set in November 2012.

According to the latest Piomas data, a combination of the smallest sea ice extent and the second - thinnest ice cover on record puts total volume of sea ice in November 2016 at a record low for this time of year.

ICESat - 2 will add to our understanding of Arctic sea ice by measuring sea ice thickness from space, providing scientists more complete information about the volume of sea ice in the Arctic and Southern oceans.

At close to 8,000 cubic kilometres (cubic km), total sea ice volume in November stood at just 48 % of the long - term average and the smallest of any November in the satellite record stretching back to 1979.

The authors of a new study reviewing the volume data, detailed on Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, are quick to caution, though, that one single year of rebound doesn't suggest any sea ice recovery, as the overall trend is still downward.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

The latter is almost linearly related to changes in ice sheet volume; the former, however, is influenced by a range of factors, including atmosphere / ocean dynamics and changes in Earth's gravitational field, rotation, and crustal and the mantle deformation associated with the redistribution of mass between land ice and the ocean.

And it's also important to remember that, while sea ice is increasing in Antarctica, glaciers and ice shelves are all melting rapidly, producing large volumes of fresh water.

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This second volume in the Sword of Shadows series (now up to 4 books) continues the emotionally - intense, hard - hitting epic style that so impressed me in A Cavern of Black Ice.

Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone awaiting the official fix for the handset's spontaneous volume reduction bug may want to avail themselves of an unofficial fix in the meantime.

When the teacher read them a table of the volume of milk received daily in their town during the preceding week, they found that their estimate was not high enough because they had ignored the uses of milk in the preparation of ice cream, pastries, butter, cheese, and other milk products.

«Eventually we'll move to a business of lower priced [NOOK] at higher volume» he explained, as well as confirming that plans to sell off the NOOK division — which Microsoft was tipped to be interested in buying at one point — had been put on ice for the moment, while the segment recovers.