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WHAT DOES ROSS ICE SHELF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ross Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly 487,000 square kilometres (188,000 sq mi) and about 800 kilometres (500 mi) across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 kilometres (370 mi) long, and between 15 and 50 metres (50 and 160 ft) high above the water surface. Ninety percent of the floating ice, however, is below the water surface. Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand. The ice shelf was named after Captain Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered it on 28 January 1841. It was originally named the Victoria Barrier by Ross after Queen Victoria and later the Great Ice Barrier, as it prevented sailing further south. Ross mapped the ice front eastward to 160°W.

Definition of Ross Ice Shelf in the English dictionary

The definition of Ross Ice Shelf in the dictionary is the ice shelf forming the S part of the Ross Sea, between Victoria Land and Byrd Land Also called: Ross Barrier, Ross Shelf Ice.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROSS ICE SHELF

Roskilde
rosolio
ROSPA
Ross
Ross and Cromarty
Ross Barrier
Ross Dependency
Ross Island
Ross Sea
Ross Shelf Ice
Rossellini
rosser
Rossetti
Rossini
Rossiya
Rostand

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROSS ICE SHELF

bookshelf
continental shelf
ice shelf
ice-shelf
mantel shelf
off the shelf
off-the-shelf
on the shelf
parcel shelf
shelf
top-shelf

Synonyms and antonyms of Ross Ice Shelf in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

罗斯冰架
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - Hindi

रॉस आइस शेल्फ
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Translator English - Arabic

الجرف الجليدي روس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Шельфовый ледник Росса
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - Bengali

রস আইস শেলফ
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - German

Ross-Schelfeis
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Translator English - Japanese

ロス氷棚
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로스 빙붕
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - Tamil

ராஸ் ஐஸ் ஷெல்ஃப்
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Translator English - Marathi

रॉस आइस शेल्फ
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Translator English - Turkish

Ross Buz Rafı
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Translator English - Italian

Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - Polish

Ross Ice Shelf
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Translator English - Ukrainian

Шельфовий льодовик Росса
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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Ross Ice Shelf
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROSS ICE SHELF»

Discover the use of Ross Ice Shelf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Ross Ice Shelf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Summer climate at selected sites on the Ross Ice Shelf and ...
Climatic summaries for several sites on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, and selected locations on the Greenland ice sheet were analyzed to determine the type of weather that can be expected in these areas during the summer months.
Michael A. Bilello, Roy E. Bates, 1975
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Icefire
Once lovers, now enemies, Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey must join forces to stop a cabal of Chinese officials from devasating the Pacific Rim nations using nuclear weapons to create gigantic tidal waves
Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, 1998
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Tidal Motion of the Ross Ice Shelf and Its Interaction with ...
Three stations near the calving front of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, recorded GPS data through a full spring-to-neap tidal cycle in November 2005.
Kelly M. Brunt, 2008
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An Analysis of the Ross Ice Shelf Low-level Wind Field Using ...
The low-level wind field is investigated to provide more insight into the RAS through the use of SOMs.
Mark William Seefeldt, 2007
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Study of the Ross Ice Shelf began with the explorers of the first decade of the twentieth century who collected the first information on surface elevation, despite the hardships of traversing the shelf's surface by dogsled and skis. Admiral Richard ...
Beau Riffenburgh, 2007
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Chemical profile of the Ross ice shelf at Little America V, ...
From 150 m to 250 m the cationic concentrations are relatively constant. This is interpreted to indicate that the ice above 125 m fell as snow on the Ross Ice Shelf and that ice below 150 m originated inland on Marie Byrd Land. (Author).
Chester C. Langway, M. Herron, J. H. Cragin, 1974
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Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers
6.5.6 Example: The Ross Ice Shelf An implementation of the numerical solution of the mechanical ice shelf problem as laid down above (Sects. 6.5.1–6.5.5) was realised by Weis (2001) with the model FESSACODE (Finite Element Shallow ...
Ralf Greve, Heinz Blatter, 2009
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Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level: Effect of a CO2-induced ...
The model ice stream was found to be more sensitive to changes in the Ross Ice Shelf than to changes in the accumulation rate. Analyses of field data obtained during the Ross Ice Shelf Glaciological and Geophysical Survey (RIGGS) ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on the Relationship between Land Ice and Sea Level, United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Carbon Dioxide Research Division, 1985
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The Coming Global Superstorm
In March 2000, two massive icebergs broke off the Ross Ice Shelf. The larger of the two was 185 miles long by 23 miles wide, slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut. hi September of 2000, Professor John Lowe of London University ...
Art Bell, Whitley Strieber, 2004
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
But the greatest refugia may have been seasonal ponds on top of the ice itself, examples of which are extant today on the Ross Ice Shelf, an undulating ice plain that is frozen for most of the year. During the hot, bright day of summer, ...
David G. Campbell, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROSS ICE SHELF»

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New insights on Ross Ice Shelf
Studying colourful images of an exotic form of Antarctic ice is helping a University of Otago-led research team gain new insights into the health of the Ross Ice ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
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Polar scientists to peer beneath largest ice shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from ... «Science /AAAS, Jun 15»
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NASA: 10000-Year-Old Ice Shelf in Antarctica Will Soon Be …
Rignot is most concerned about the Ross Ice Shelf and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica's largest, both of which are bigger than California and more than ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
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Nasa captures 17 MILE iceberg break away from West Antarctica's …
... from West Antarctica's Getz Ice Shelf by the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC). ... a fragment of B-15 that initially broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
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Watch creatures on the Antarctic seabed for the first time: Robot …
Now, researchers have created a special robo-explorer to borrow into the ice and record the first footage of what lies on the seabed below the Ross Ice Shelf. «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
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Surprise! Fish Lurk in Antarctica's Dark Underworld
The swimmers are in one of the world's most extreme ecosystems, hidden beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, roughly 530 miles (850 kilometers) from the open ocean. «Live Science, Jan 15»
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Climate change effects on Antarctic ice shelf monitored 24/7 with …
tyler at antarctica University of Nevada, Reno and College of Science Foundation Professor Scott Tyler journeyed to the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to record ... «Nevada Today, Nov 14»
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Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice Growing?
Map of Antarctica and its land ice sheets showing Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea (at the bottom) where temperatures were particularly low in 2014. Also shows ... «reportingclimatescience.com, Oct 14»
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Antarctic sea-ice hits new high as scientists puzzle over the cause
The Ross Sea sits in the Southern Ocean, due south of New Zealand. ... The result is an increase in the winds pushing sea-ice away from the Ross Ice Shelf. «Carbon Brief, Sep 14»
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Irreversible Changes Now Affect Antarctica and the World (Op-Ed)
For example, a 2013 study showed that the Ross Ice Shelf experienced sudden collapses in the distant past, and that this could happen again with warming. «LiveScience.com, May 14»

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