Sentence examples for coverage ice from inspiring English sources

At higher coverage, ice blocks access to the oil, but Shell has contingencies for that: its plans call for "ice management," or using ships to hold the ice at bay or break it into smaller pieces.

The results from the incident-based estimators resolved consistently larger values, with the Incident-based Coverage Estimator (ICE) estimating 949 species and the Chao 2 estimating 939 species (95% confidence: 767 74 to 1187 species).

Finally, we calculated two estimates of species richness using the software EstimateS 8.2 [ 13]: the Incidence -based Coverage Estimator (ICE) [ 12] and the non-parametric Chao 2 [ 47, 48].

We used the program EstimateS® version 8.2 [ 54] to compute the mean of the incidence-based, non-parametric richness estimators Chao2, first-order Jackknife (Jack1), and Incidence Coverage Estimate (ICE) for each sampling strategy, as well as the standard deviation for each and 95% confidence interval for Chao2.

The study was designed to test a widely held hypothesis that population sizes of "ice-loving" top predators declined with decreasing ice coverage, whereas "ice-avoiding" species increased in population size as ice coverage diminished.

If you dare, read David Rose's ice coverage for a classic example of torqued, sensationalist reporting on the "recovery" of the ice.

The loss of ice coverage has created additional ice-free habitat for Adélie penguins.

"Before CryoSat, we could see summer ice coverage was dropping markedly in the Arctic," said Rapley.

Satellite images have revealed that the extent of ice coverage has significantly shrunk in recent years.

Ice coverage in the Arctic this year shrank to its fourth lowest extent on record, US scientists announced earlier this month.

The consequences of losing the Arctic's ice coverage for the summer months are expected to be immense.