Sentences with phrase «with ice accumulation»

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Heavy snow and mixed precipitation is possible Friday night and Saturday, with accumulations of six to 12 inches, along with ice.

Furthermore, we also saw about a ten - time delay in ice accumulation during freezing rain when compared to surfaces flooded with antifreeze.»

The paper, combining evidence of driftwood accumulation and beach formation in northern Greenland with evidence of past sea - ice extent in parts of Canada, concludes that Arctic sea ice appears to have retreated far more in some spans since the end of the last ice age than it has in recent years.

Other pages display maps of individual glaciers, with white regions indicating the «accumulation zone,» where snow falls and adds to the mass, and gray stippled areas showing the «ablation zone,» where melting eats away at the ice.

Three ice cores with very high accumulation rates (1.5 m ice equivalent / year) for two of them, drilled with three different techniques (wet and dry), without clathrates or cracks in the ice, were compared.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

With greater accumulation of dense ice on the crystal, its fall velocity increases.

This major change in ocean circulation, along with a climate that had already been slowly cooling for millions of years, may be what led to ice accumulation most of the time — but also to climatic instability, with flips every few thousand years or so between warm - and - wet and cool - and - dry.

229 Time resolution on the scale of a year or two can be obtained from semi-fossil trees, e.g., Roig et al (2001) have a 1229 - year - long stretch of tree - ring widths from the middle of the last ice age at 40 ° S that shows abrupt droughts with abrupt recoveries (tenfold changes in yearly accumulation), but they are floating in absolute time and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the ice - core records.

The study uses reconstructions of ice accumulation, satellite and aircraft readings of ice thickness, and changes in elevation and ice velocity to determine how fast ice shelves melt and compare the mass lost with the amount released by the calving, or splitting, of icebergs.

To determine how much ice and snowfall enters a specific ice shelf and how much makes it to an iceberg, where it may split off, the research team used a regional climate model for snow accumulation and combined the results with ice velocity data from satellites, ice shelf thickness measurements from NASA's Operation IceBridge — a continuing aerial survey of Earth's poles — and a new map of Antarctica's bedrock.

Ice - flow corrections allow reconstruction of snow accumulation rates over tens of thousands of years with little additional uncertainty.

They use a range of techniques to track changes in the volume of the ice - sheet over a 500 - year period, and compare it with measurements of ice - accumulation obtained by deep boring undertaken by Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University.

The difference in CO2 levels between all ice cores drilled in Antarctica with the most extreme differences in snow accumulation and temperature is not more than 5 ppmv for the same average gas age...

The Whitechuck Glacier has simply not been happy with the 1.4 o F warming the North Cascade region has experienced since the 19th century, and its reduced income in the form of reduced accumulation, and increased expenditures in the form of increased ablation have led to a negative balance in its glacier ice savings account.

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.