Sentence examples for areas of ice from inspiring English sources

The polar regions cover large areas of ice and snow, which were excluded in our study.

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.

They hypothesized that these drainage networks could deliver water to areas of ice shelves vulnerable to collapse — thus accelerating ice-mass loss in Antarctica.

The machine is designed to search rock-strewn areas of ice that are known to harbor meteorites and pick out the objects that fell from space from among ordinary rocks and stones.

The areal expansion of significant RTS activity into northern Banks Island from 2007 onwards is a direct response to regional warming and suggests that areas of ice-rich permafrost elsewhere in the Arctic, which may be relatively unaffected by thermokarst at present due to low summer air temperatures, could become impacted as the climate warms over the 21st century.

Special weather maps in aviation show areas of icing and turbulence for the other.

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.

The waters around Svalbard, an archipelago between Norway and the North Pole, have a little over half the average area of ice for this time of year.

It drains an area of ice that is larger than England and stealthily slides towards the sea by several metres every day.