Sentences with phrase «year ice remained»

Just like 2006, more perennial ice melted and some of the 1/2 year ice remained from 2007.

Extensive areas of first - year ice remain in the East Siberian and Laptev Seas (Figures 1 and 2).

Not exact matches

Warren Buffett has made no secret about his questionable consumption of burgers, shoestring fries, ice cream and loads of Coca - Cola — and the 87 - year - old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway appears to remain healthy, mentally sharp and active.

One is skating on rather thin ice to suggest on the basis of this polite acknowledgement in a preface in 1925 that Morgan at least could have been in any real way instrumental in Whitehead's development of the ideas found years later in NL.12 The case remains to be made with respect to Alexander.

Throughout years of success and expansion, the family owned DeConna Ice Cream Inc. has remained true to its humble beginnings, the company says.

Meanwhile, it's tough to tell whether Matty Ice is as good as his numbers last year suggested, but the Falcons are one of just two undefeated teams remaining.

In my own maternal ancestral village of Akyem - Nkronso (I have never been to the place, by the way), for example, one of my late uncles, a chief and the traditional Royal Mausoleum Custodian of Akyem - Abuakwa, had his mortal remains iced for exactly the same number of years as Capt. Zapata, because the various legitimate claimant lineages of the Nkronso Royal Family could not decide on which household's turn it was to present a candidate to succeed the deceased chief.

Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.

Ice Age Immigrants (Eurasia 7,000 - 45,000 years ago) aDNA from 51 individuals reveals the earliest modern humans to reach Europe went extinct; those arriving in subsequent waves, starting 37,000 years ago, left descendants who remain to this day.

However, this year's ice cover remains far below the 1981 - 2010 average, indicating an ongoing, long - term decline of ice because of warming temperatures, according to scientists.

The ice sheet is made up of snow that falls and never melts, but rather remains year after year and is gradually compressed into ice.

Some scientists plan to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, others will map the region's seafloor topography and still others want to study the newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years (SN Online: 10/13/17).

By measuring the remaining difference — the 20,000 - year old ice deep in the West Antarctic ice sheet is about 1 degree Celsius cooler than the surface — the scientists were able to estimate the original temperature based on how fast pure ice warms up.

Both studies show that most species remain unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps longer, and across several ice ages.

In contrast, Bierman and colleagues» data provides a record of continuous ice sheet activity over eastern Greenland but can't distinguish whether this was because there was a remnant in East Greenland or whether the ice sheet remained over the whole island, fluctuating in size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of years.

Now, several research groups aim to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, map the region's seafloor and study a newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years.

Not long ago, it was thought impossible for ice to remain intact for millions of years: Scientists assumed it would eventually sublimate, transforming in the frigid, dry air directly from ice to vapor.

The researchers propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice.

Over 25 years, the proportion of the ocean covered by ice at least four years old has dwindled from 26 % to 7 %, while the remaining ice is mainly thin, the product of one winter.

The northern hemisphere remained relatively ice - free for longer, with Greenland and the Arctic becoming heavily glaciated only around 3.2 million years ago.

Researchers have little hope that a wintertime ice bridge will bring enough new wolves to Isle Royale for a «genetic rescue,» both because the remaining wolves may not mate with them and also because the frequency of ice bridge formations decline each year.

Due to consistently below - freezing temperatures, ice that appears to be flowing can actually remain in place for thousands of years.

Ice hidden beneath rubble can remain virtually unchanged for millions of years.

Now seafloor sediments reveal that Larsen B's grounding line had remained stable for thousands of years before the ice shelf's collapse.

The ice was formed by the precipitation that fell as snow from the clouds and remained year after year, gradually being compressed into ice.

Some scientists believe the ice sheet experienced significant melting during the relatively warmer conditions of the Pliocene, while others think it has remained almost entirely frozen for the last 14 million years.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

Calvert Island, in particular, is among the few places worldwide with a sea level that has remained relatively stable since the last ice age, a boon for scientists looking to study how people have lived for the past 15,000 years.

The late peak in March this year helped ensure a huge amount of ice remained on the lakes at the start of April.

«Climate models show that ice - sheet melt will dominate sea - level rise over the coming centuries, but our understanding of ice - sheet variations before the last interglacial 125,000 years ago remains fragmentary.

The Ice around Northern Greenland, and northern Canadian islands remains year after year.

Untouched by ice age glaciers, it has remained essentially the same for the last 130 million years.

And since you have missed this acceleration you have assumed that the rate will remain at 3.3 mm / year for the rest of this century, despite ongoing observations of increases in ice mass loss in Greenland and parts of Antarctica.

Here's video I shot a few years back showing how this species remains active even when the local ponds are sheathed in ice:

In my opinion, the only thing keeping the remaining single - year sea ice from melting even faster than last year's ice is the shift in the PDO.

All they tell us is that if there is no further warming for 40 years, and Arctic temperatures remain largely at or below today's values for another four whole decades, then we won't lose the Arctic summer ice.

That is because any additional amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will remain there for a very long time (to the extent that our emissions this century will like prevent the next Ice Age due to begin 50 000 years from now).

«The September ice volumes of A2 and B2 drop to very low levels as early as around 2025 and remain almost flat in the following years when the projected September ice extents continue to fluctuate significantly annually (Figures 1d and 1e).

The two wild cards remaining would be (1) how thick is this first - year ice and (2) will it be warm enough to melt the first - year ice this summer?

Cochelin et al used a model of intermediate complexity to show that the orbital variations over the next 100,000 years are weak enough that even a little human CO2 remaining in the atmosphere is enough to keep the earth out of an ice age («Simulation of long - term future climate changes with the green McGill paleoclimate model: The next glacial inception»).

This season's Arctic ice retreat ranks well behind the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007 and also last year's but remains below the average ice extent for the stretch since 1979, when satellites started monitoring Arctic conditions with some precision.

Added to this is a term according to (4) simply based on the assumption that the accelerated ice flow observed 1993 - 2003 remains constant ever after, adding another 3 cm by the year 2095.

The arctic will be ice free in summer within 5 - 6 years, progressing rapidly to all the remaining 9 months of the year as the arctic ocean continues to warm.

If this ice remains in the Arctic through the winter, it will thicken, which gives some hope of stabilizing the ice cover over the next few years.

This increase was based on the June ice extent remaining within 1 sigma of the 1981 - 2010 long - term mean and nearly average melt pond coverage compared to recent years.

Already the sea ice extent is tracking below this time in 2007, which remains the record year for the lowest sea ice extent.

By last year all that remained were three patches of gritty ice, the largest just a couple of hundred yards (200 meters) across.

litesong wrote: The 2017 Arctic sea ice is increasing its chances that its sea ice maximum will remain below 14 million square kilometers, becoming the third year IN A ROW to remain under the mark, as NO OTHER YEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECyear IN A ROW to remain under the mark, as NO OTHER YEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECYEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECORD.

However, substantial ice sheet changes that occurred during the last hundreds to few thousands of years remain poorly quantified and are not included in our model.

Survival rates remained high for the next four years despite extreme shifts in weather and sea - ice extent.