Sentence examples for rapid ice from inspiring English sources
The consequences of further rapid ice loss at the top of the world are of profound importance to the whole planet.
The NSIDC warned that: "Persistently warm conditions and increased melting late in June may have set the stage for rapid ice loss in the coming weeks".
"The potential for sustained rapid ice loss and catastrophic sea-level rise in the near future is confirmed by our discovery of sea-level instability" in that period, the authors write.
This means the rapid ice loss recorded by satellite measurements over the last 20 years is not likely to be a blip, but part of a long-term trend being exacerbated by climate change.
Thus, even though models are thought to not lose ice fast enough, every one of the old CCSM3 runs had a "RILE" (rapid ice loss event) at some point in the 21st century that beat the current streak.
In contrast, the sharp biting sensation elicited by touching an object at deep cold temperatures (such as dry ice) is due to the abrupt activation of nociceptors by rapid ice crystal formation in the skin.
Inferred productivity (Ba/Al) may have been rising in association with increasing nutrient availability (P/Al) at the same time as increased vigour of the Deep Western Boundary Current that was connected to a period of rapid ice-sheet growth in Antarctica.
The crowd at Cedar Rapids Ice Arena cheered until Chanter, whose helmet had been knocked off, started convulsing.
Bear Grylls, the host, is an Eton-educated adventurer who shoots rapids, ice-climbs and parachutes, preferably landing in locations requiring him to eat grubs and drink urine and, at least once, liquid from elephant dung.
There is also increasing evidence that recent summer weather extremes in the mid-latitudes may be related to Arctic amplification and rapid sea ice loss.
This result indicates that future projections of the pH and aragonite saturation state at high latitudes may be significantly influenced by rapid sea ice reduction as well as increases of atmospheric CO2 concentration.
