Sentence examples for stable ice from inspiring English sources

That's why you can have a stable ice sheet in a warmer climate".

They skied through the night for 2.5 hours to an area of more stable ice.

These cores span about 110,000 years of relatively stable ice.

The new ice produced each year is thinner and more volatile than the older more stable ice in the Arctic.

In northerly flowing rivers such behaviour is typical, since the upstream ice is freed first and moves toward colder, more stable ice covers.

In some cases particularly before a stable ice cover forms wind mixing may be sufficient to entrain ice particles and supercooled water to considerable depths.

One of the glaciers flowing from the ice sheet into the sea--a glacier that has long been seen as the ice sheet's weak point--is eating into stabler ice at a startling rate.

Since the cryoprotective solution can be transformed into a stable glass without ice crystal formation during the rapid cooling process, this extremely rapid method of cryopreservation is referred to as "vitrification," meaning "glass formation".

Chicks are tended by both parents until fledging occurs in mid-summer, usually during November or December coincident with the breakup of stable fast ice into 'pack' (i.e. ice floes that drift with the winds and currents); however, chicks may still also be fed while taking refuge on drifting ice floes.

Thus, emperor penguins depend upon stable fast ice for approximately eight months of the year, so late fast ice formation in winter and/or early breakup in spring can strongly reduce the chances of successful breeding at any given colony location.

In areas with stable sea ice, polar bear sub-populations have also generally remained stable.