Sentences with phrase «year melting out»

That is about ice area equal to five football fields every year melting out of Gangotri, and the same (or more) is happening across most of our world's glaciers.

Not exact matches

As we melt in triple digit heat with no air conditioning in our 100 - year - old house, we seek out any remedy to melting completely.

I'm off to find that peppermint hot chocolate recipe — I'm sure it will turn out better than when I tried to melt vegan chocolate chips and pepper mint extract together last year...

Are we, as the increasingly melting face of Harry Redknapp suggested, at risk of missing out on the Champions League for the first time in 17 years?

Last week, Thompson's colleagues measured the ice levels at survey poles that they had inserted last year; more than a meter of ice had melted in 12 months, out of a total thickness of 20 to 50 meters.

Next year, the team plans to go out earlier in the season, to be there in May when the snow begins to melt and the algae wake from their winter nap.

The wind pushes them out to the open sea, where they ultimately break up into smaller pieces and melt in the course of two to three years,» explains Thomas Rackow, a climate modeller at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven / Germany and first author of the new study.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).

There just isn't much ice left, and what is left would be extremely difficult to melt, as most of it is located at high latitudes around the poles which are mostly dark 6 months out of the year with way below freezing temperatures.

One year without a net loss also doesn't buck the long - term trend of Greenland losing ice, both from surface melt and from ocean waters eating away at glaciers that flow out to sea.

The latest example of that is in Norway, where a group of researchers has reconstructed 6,000 years of history based on more than 2,000 artifacts that have melted out of ice patches.

You can also make a quick change or two to how you apply makeup — check out a few secrets to melting away the years with makeup in this video.

It saved me when my hubby was out of town and the drain in our kitchen clogged thanks to the three - year - old's attempt at dishes that resulted in her pouring a bowl of butter and melted olive oil down the drain.

It's one thing to tell people to only focus on things they can control, but the reality is that a vast majority of athletes who take the Open seriously spend a lot of time every March freaking out and melting down while staring at a leaderboard and cycling through all of the Instagram training highlights they can see and replaying their rival's highlight reels from training throughout the year.

Although the mental and physical problems from metal toxicity have escalated in recent years, our very language tacitly acknowledges the historic toxicity of certain metals: «Mad as a hatter» from the Civil - War - era's crazed use of mercury sizing in hat manufacture, «gold fever» from the murderous greed of early prospectors, «lead poisoning» as black humor for «getting shot,» and, more recently, «get - the - lead - out» exhortations from trainers who would have us exercise long and hard in order to sweat out toxins and melt excess fat.

Floral and maxi dresses were brought out of hibernation the second the snow melted, so snag yourself something even newer with these five effortless outfits you'll want to live in all year.

In the summer, I prefer natural makeup where I can be out the door in under five minutes — after all, most of it melts off in the 100 ° F days we had this year — but as soon as it's fall, I tend to drift towards a little bit more of a dramatic makeup look.

This great year - round mist keeps makeup from melting in the summer and drying out in winter.

If you cut and run every time it looks like stocks might melt down, you can miss out on big gains if stocks recover and move to higher ground, as they did five times this year.

Maybe its just in my mind but I seem to remember Easter always being nice and sunny, I can certainly remember one year going out with the family on an Easter Sunday picnic and we put our chocolate eggs on the back window shelf of the car and being so dissapointed to find that they had melted in the hot sun!!

Each year, as the snow begins to melt and the days stretch out a little longer, the Art Business News team heads to New York City to get a first glimpse of the year's new art and design trends at Artexpo New York.

We find out that the weather's so cold, that it certainly isn't the air temperature that's melting any ice and that the USN has had automated bouys measuring the ice thickness, bobbing away for years.

It must be pointed out that the ice has been thinning more appreciatively in west Greenland of late and that ice sheet melting can only contribute a moderate amount of freshwater volume each year.

But scientist Eric Rignot, PhD, of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, whose research about three years ago pointed to bleak long - term glacier melt prospects for the western Antarctica, says he holds out hope for some «pretty good news.»

He points out that this is just what happened in the 1920s and 1930s, when the ice melted even more dramatically than it has done in recent years, before it recovered again during the decades of what is called «the Little Cooling».

The North Pole may not melt out this year, but the North West Passage should be open water definitely.

Thanks for pointing that out, indeed Meir / Serreze / Stroeve (ARCUS) noted angle of incidence as a reason why the overall first year ice melt may not be as much as expected for first year.

all of this ice melted in spite of the fact that a. the weather was much cooler this year b. there were no strong winds pushing the ice out to the Atlantic, like last year c. there were no large storms being diverted to the north like last year

Given the fact that 73 % of the Arctic Ocean now consists of first year ice, which is much easier to melt out in the summer, there's a good chance that we'll be as low or lower than last summer.

[Some of you may recall I said years ago there was no way Antarctica was going to wait till 2100 to start melting given the melt in the north, then we find out it has been for decades...]

Mark Serreze at the National Snow and Ice Data Center pointed me to their latest sea - ice projection, posted on Monday, and told me he sees «a decent chance that the North Pole melts out» this year.

I read online within the past two weeks that Russian scientists were up in the northern oceans somewhere and they saw tons of hot spots of methane bubbling out from the ocean surface.I think it was in ScienceDaily.The question posed by these scientists was «is this outgassing a normal melting of methane that has been going on for many thousands of years, or, is it an upward tick of significance?»

With the Antarctic sea ice maximum observed this year I wondered if it was due to the sub-surface melt lakes discharging fresh super-chilled water out under the ice sheets.

It's clear to a range of scientists that the enormous loss of old, thick ice carried on currents from the Arctic out past Greenland into the Atlantic Ocean in recent years is a major factor that has led to sharp summer melting.

Howell points out that concentration of MYI in the region is well below the historical average and that it is likely the seasonal first - year ice will clear during the melt season.

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) are getting ready to deploy about 100 scientists to the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica as part of a five - year study to find out how fast it is melting.

Land absorbs energy and ice absorbs heat to melt - as witnessed by the unusually - strong melt - out of Arctic sea ice this year.

I must point out that this particular section generally holds info up to about 2010 ~ and so doesn't directly mention all the additional weight of scientific info in the last five years [i.e. all the newer «hot year» global records and even faster Ice Melt and sea - level rise].

Changes in the ice pack really stand out, but also keep an eye on the Canadian Archipelago and Northwest Passage, where in situ melting is jaw - dropping this year..

Rapidly rising seas resulting from melting glaciers as well as polar ice sheet nearly wiped out the Great Barrier Reef some 125,000 years earlier, according to University of Sydney researchers.

One such as Rajendra Pachauri's attack on an Indian scientist for pointing out for four years that the IPCC's claim on Himalayan glaciers was incorrect during the period that the consulting firm he led, TERI, was negotiating for a large contract to study the glacial melting of Himalayan glaciers.

This pink clay can be traced back to 400 million years old red sand stones at Svalbard, and was carried out to sea by melt water from the ice sheet.

While the 2010 melt season started with more multi-year ice (MYI) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas than seen in recent years and an overall greater percentage of MYI arctic - wide, by the end of August nearly all of this MYI had melted out or ice concentration had fallen below 40 %.

Furthermore, diatom fossils in sediments from fjords in East Antarctica show that ice melting there began perhaps 3000 years later, thus ruling out Antarctica as a likely source.

At the beginning of 2008's melt season, official ice watchers pointed out that while ice area recovered well during the winter, there was so much thin first year ice that the melt would proceed quickly and there would be more melting than in 2007.

And one of the projections it comes out with is that the summer melt could lead to ice - free Arctic seas by 2016 - «plus or minus three years».

In contrast, sea ice in 2008 (Fig. 4) has a slightly greater extent than 2007 and not all first - year sea ice that formed in winter 2008 melted out during the summer, providing a basis for forming second - year sea ice during winter 2009 and beyond.

When this trend is extrapolated out 80 million years from now, it suggests that even if all of today's ice caps were to melt, sea levels would be 230 feet (70 meters) lower than they are today.

They collectively conclude that recent September sea ice minima are more related to longer term shifts in thermal forcing and ice melt and thus persistence, and in most years, month - to - month meteorological variability over the summer months tends to cancel out extremes in atmospheric forcing.