Sentences with phrase «volume of ice moves»

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

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They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.

«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.

The buttresses of ice frozen around Antarctica's edges, hundreds of meters thick in many cases, are also in the sea, but they can act like doorstops and — once moved out of the way — can allow huge volumes of ice on the continent (in theory) to move toward the sea more easily.

The Lake Missoula floods moved large volumes of ice, hundreds of miles across a downgrade of only 2 or 3 %.