Sentence examples for area of ice from inspiring English sources
Second, although the area of ice at the south pole has been growing, this has been a much smaller change than the shrinkage seen at the north pole.
Figures have many degrees of difficulty and develop edge control, balance, and turning skills on a single skate over a small area of ice called a patch.
In a blog for National Geographic back in March, Marc wrote about the fact that this area of ice was the very same one where he started an unsuccessful expedition back in 1996.
An area of ice thought to weigh almost 500 billion tonnes has broken off the Antarctic continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs in one of the most dramatic examples yet of the effects of climate change.
Signs of the frozen world arrive – little blocks of sea ice at first, rather than the other forms we learn about, such as bergy bits (small icebergs), pancake (circular pieces of ice) or pack (a larger area of ice).
The ice cap usually reaches its smallest extent around now, and although the total area of ice in September fluctuates from year to year, in the last two decades it has generally declined, probably because of carbon-driven global warming.
Pack ice, also known as ice pack or pack, any area of sea ice (ice formed by freezing of seawater) that is not landfast; it is mobile by virtue of not being attached to the shoreline or something else.
The 3.9 sqkm area of ice-free cliffs in Princess Astrid Coast called Svarthamaren Mountain hosts Antarctica's largest known inland colony of breeding seabirds, almost 1 million (250,000 pairs) Antarctic petrels.
The real worry is what may happen to the much larger areas of ice which are grounded on land.
Soot has a pivotal extra effect, too: it settles on glaciers and other areas of ice, darkening their surface and increasing the rate at which they melt.
Satellite and aircraft observations have measured the changing areas of ice sheets, but researchers need data on the changing heights, or elevations, to calculate their mass.
