Sentences with phrase «white ice surfaces»

Quantitative analysis has evidenced the acceleration system of melting ice: dark water surfaces absorb more heat than white ice surfaces, thus melting ice and making more water surfaces in the Arctic Ocean.

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And, whimsy did surface with the dessert course when we ordered «The Cloud» — a flaming cotton candy dessert comprised of Angel food cake topped with white chocolate cremeux, strawberry ice cream, strawberry compote, and whipped cream all ensconced within a cloud of cotton candy.

Pie Shell 1 1/4 cups unbleached all - purpose flour, plus extra for dough and rolling surface 2 tablespoons confectioners» sugar 1/2 teaspoon table salt 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut into 1/4 - inch pieces 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening, frozen, cut into small pieces 1 large egg white, chilled, thoroughly mixed with ice water (about 2 tablespoons) to equal 1/4 cup 1 large egg yolk, beaten with 1/8 teaspoon water

Its impermeable print surface complements good - looking white wines, and offers excellent ice - bucket performance.

Rime is white ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze to the surfaces of objects.

Sunlight tends to bounce off the white, reflective surfaces of glaciers and ice sheets, but the darker surfaces of dirty ground ice can absorb greater amounts of solar radiation.

As the sea ice melts, its white reflective surface is replaced by a relatively dark ocean surface.

«It's fairly intuitive to expect that replacing white, reflective sea ice with a dark ocean surface would increase the amount of solar heating,» said Pistone.

Most of the images from Rosetta have been in black & white, so these colour ones are a nice change and show incredible detail, including patches of water ice on the rocky surface.

The bright white and bluish part of Europa's surface is composed mostly of water ice, with very few non-ice materials.

Sea ice, with its bright white surface, reflects solar energy back into the atmosphere, helping to cool surface temperatures.

Recent summers on the vast, white expanse of the Greenland ice sheet have featured some spectacular ice melt, including an alarming period in 2012 when nearly the whole surface showed signs of melt.

You can look for a long time at the surface of some of the oils made around 1960 and still make new discoveries: a shift in colour and texture at the right - hand edge of a work; a tiny, at times invisible, splash of bright green, pink, or turquoise; or a sharp white rectangle at the very bottom, half obscured by thicker ice - cream folds of paint.

In Shaved Ice (2010), a white painted surface gives way to the bubbly texture of Gorilla Glue, weighted down by dozens of copper - plated steel bits that make the surface appear even more constrained, referencing Piero Manzoni.

Peppermint Ice Cream (2010) features a mix of red, blue and black spray - paint covered with a thin layer of white that looks as if it is oozing across the composition's wood surface.

The images show the surface of the coastal ocean near NE Greenland; white dots are pieces of ice.

Indeed, as I mentioned back in Germany, the earth is now thought to have become completely covered with ice and snow on some occasions, all of the land and sea surfaces white except for a few hot springs areas such as Iceland.

As the earth's natural air conditioner, white sea ice moderates solar heating by increasing the reflectivity of Earth's surface and decreasing the amount of heat that would otherwise by absorbed by darker ice - free Arctic seas.

White ice crystals deposited on the surface of objects that have a temperature below the freezing point of water.

They develop when piles of wind - blown debris settle on the white, reflective surface of a glacier or ice sheet.

This change — reducing the amount of white, reflective ice surface — led to further warmth, in a feedback effect.

Bright white ice reflects sunlight from the Earth's surface.

Ice undergoing surface melt appears blue, and ice that is not melting appears whiIce undergoing surface melt appears blue, and ice that is not melting appears whiice that is not melting appears white.

When black carbon falls on ice and snow, it smudges their bright white reflective surfaces.

In the real - world, up to a third of it is reflected back to Space from light - colored surfaces (albedo) such as snow, ice, clouds, and the white roof of Energy Secretary Chu's home: ^).

The more ice there is at the poles, the more of the Earth's surface is white, reflecting more of the sun's light and heat and lowering temperatures further.

Ablation stakes made of plywood strips 10 - cm wide and marked with alternating black and white 10 - cm squares are planted in the ice near the buoy to indicate visually the amount of surface melting as the summer proceeds.

As the ice on the surface of the Arctic Ocean melts away, there is a smaller area of white ice to reflect the Sun's heat back into space and more open, dark water to absorb it.

(The graphic does not account for the portion of Sunlight that gets through the Atmosphere, and is then reflected back to Space by clouds and other high - albedo surfaces such as ice and white roofs.