Sentences with phrase «widespread melting came»
The discovery of widespread melting came after hydrologist Åsa K. Rennermalm of Rutgers University, New Jersey, noticed that stream runoffs at her field site in west Greenland were unusually heavy.
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According to a paper published Thursday in Science, that melting could come sooner, and be more widespread, than experts previously believed.
The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.
As reported by Don Perovich aboard the Healy, there is widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it runs through, then underneath, the ice and comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, adding on layers of newly formed ice to the bottom of floes during the melt season.
Field observations and a drifting buoy tracking through the region also reveal that widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, has added ice layers to the bottom of floes, slowing down thinning and melt of the ice cover.