Sentences with phrase «where land ice»

Temperatures may rise to levels where land ice melts, and feedbacks created by sea ice loss reinforce regional Arctic warming, which in turn could cause more land ice to melt.

Should coastal planners have concern over where land ice is melting?

Not exact matches

So there's been a lot of great work by NASA and other organizations in early exploration of Mars and understanding... what Mars is like, where could we land, what's the composition of the atmosphere, where is there water — water ice, I should say — and so we need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city.

«They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.»

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

Chris Borstad, a geophysicist at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, is particularly interested in Larsen C's «suture zones» — areas where glacial ice flows off land and merges.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

Almost 10 percent of the planet's land area sits locked under glacial ice, where humans have never ventured.

In 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice caps.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

The population looks set to fall again as melting pack ice forces polar bears back to the land - based habitats of brown bears, where interbreeding has recently been observed.

The Russian and American scientists have never before experienced anything of such magnitude, and in addition to powerful emissions from shallow waters where over 100 readings were recorded, it is spewing up from within cracks in the Arctic ice in the open seas far from land.

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) occurs in response to retreating ice from the last glacial period, where around most of the world, land is subsiding at a fraction of a millimetre per year, compounding the problem of sea - level rise.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

Rita and Roddy strike a deal that Roddy hopes will eventually land him back in his guilded cage where he can return to driving his Barbie car and skiing on mountains of ice cream before his owners return from Holiday.

The «land of the lost» is a kind of cosmic depot where random bits of junk — an ice - cream truck, a motel pool — fall through a time - space portal to be, in essence, played with by the movie's heroes.

Aloft opens in a desolate desert of ice and snow where caravans of pilgrims, traveling in big rigs and camper vans, converge at the end of the world as if it's the promised land.

Crown of the Ivory King, the third and final downloadable add - on coming to Dark Souls 2, will send players to a frozen, desolate land where blinding snowstorms and ice - covered monsters will deliver...

Crown of the Ivory King, the third and final downloadable add - on coming to Dark Souls 2, will send players to a frozen, desolate land where blinding snowstorms and ice - covered monsters will deliver what may the game's most difficult challenge yet.

Barbarella is sent to the planet Tau Ceti, where she crash - lands in the ice and forests of Weir.

Discover Japan in winter, exploring its stunning temples iconic cities, the world - renowned Sapporo Snow Festival, where imposing ice sculptures loom, and the mischievous snow monkeys that inhabit the «Land of the Rising Sun.»

Iceland is a land sculpted by lava and ice, where geysers burst and glaciers gleam and emerald valleys stretch all the way to the ocean.

Veteran naturalists such as author Stefan Lundgren lead hikes past penguin colonies, Zodiac land excursions, and kayak tours through ice floes, where you'll spot leopard seals and the occasional orca.

The package also features a private movie screening of either the grand finale or Hollywood films such as La La Land, Forever Love and Pretty Woman at the resort's cinema, complemented with champagne, popcorn and ice - cream, and access to the Anam's Colonial Club Lounge where high tea is served.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Battlefield's gone further into the future before, such as its popular online multiplayer shooter Battlefield 2142, which took place in a future where the Earth has been ravaged by a new ice age and two factions, the European Union and the Pan-Asian Coalition, battle for the remaining habitable land.

As a letter written by a group of scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute says, «Recent satellite images of Greenland make it clear that there are in fact still numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice - free conditions and the emergence of new lands».

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

When Greenland was settled in about 1000 AD, there obviously was arable land where now there's ice, etc..

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) occurs in response to retreating ice from the last glacial period, where around most of the world, land is subsiding at a fraction of a millimetre per year, compounding the problem of sea - level rise.

There are also plenty of examples where models have correctly suggested that different data sets were inconsistent (satellite vs. surface in the 1990s, tropical ice age ocean temperatures vs. land temperatures in the 1980s etc.) which were resolved in favor of the models.

«In a future where the polar ice - caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw «smokers,» and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.»

Polar bears living in regions (such as Hudson's Bay and Svalbard) that were not ice covered all year round even before global warming spend the warmer months on land where they are a real danger (male polar bears are the only healthy carnivore that routinely stalks and hunts people).

Similar challenges arise in the Norwegian and Russian Arctic, where receding sea ice will put feeding grounds beyond the reach of pregnant bears (which are restricted to land) by the 2050s.

«They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.»

Activist polar explorer Børge Ousland's told National Geographic that more polar bear encounters on land are due to reduced sea ice — without any reference to population changes over that time or revealing when or where these observations were made.

So if, say, Resolute, one of the northernmost land stations, is 50 ⁰ F, and the Arctic is mixed water - ice (it always is), that 50 degrees will be extended out 1200 kilometers where the air - sea boundary temperature has to be around 30 ⁰ F, the freezing point of seawater up there.

In the Arctic, where sea ice reached a record low for February, land temperatures averaged 8 degrees above normal (4.5 degrees Celsius), Blunden said.

Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.

As ice in Greenland melts at the surface, water carves fissures and reaches the base, where ice meets land.

«Previous observations have pointed to large methane plumes being released from the seabed in the relatively shallow sea off the northern coast of Siberia, but the latest findings were made far away from land in the deep, open ocean where the surface is usually capped by ice.»

There, it can loosen the ice's grip at locations, called grounding lines, where ice frozen to underlying outcrops of rock has long anchored the ice sheet to the land, Minzoni said.

From that link's words, the DMI «green line» IS the best way to consistently compare the daily estimate of NORTH areas of the arctic — those areas north of 70 latitude to 83 north latitude NASA - GISS extrapolates «surface» ground - based temperatures as far as 1200 km from where their land - based measurements were made from 60 - 70 latitude over the ever - greening (and darker) tundra and forests OUT to the open sea where where the arctic sea ice actually is present.

This applies particularly in West Antarctica where the «land ice» is actually sitting on the sea floor 100's and even 1 - 2000 meters below sea level.

The data used in the study included more than 455,000 independent estimates of changes in the land elevation of the vast ice sheets covering Antarctica, both in the western part of the continent, where ice is melting more rapidly, and in the east, where the ice is considered to be more stable, for the time being at least.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liIce Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding liice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

A well - known example of this is the melting of land - based ice, which is contributing to sea - level rise (and adding to the effects of thermal expansion of the oceans), with implications for low - lying areas far beyond the polar and mountain regions where the melting is taking place.

Further, these areas of open water do not occur near the leading edge of the ice in warm water, they only occur near land in previously frozen areas where air and water are cold enough to re-freeze the open water.

The main root of this threat is the potential collapse of West Antarctica's marine - based ice sheets — massive expanses of glacial ice that rest not on land but the ocean floor — in particular, those where warm ocean waters circulate nearby [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2013].

She stated, «With the pack ice retreating further and further north every year, they tend to be stuck on land where there's not much food,» and «many times I have seen horribly thin bears, and those were exclusively females — like this one here» and «Only once I have seen a bear getting a big fat «5,» but several times I have seen dead bears and bears like this one: a mere «1» on the scale, doomed to death.»