10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEET ICE»
Discover the use of
sheet ice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sheet ice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The West Antarctic
Ice Sheet
The implication is neutral equilibrium of the inland ice sheet /ice shelf grounding
line. If the equilibria are found to be stable, the marine ice sheet instability
hypothesis must be rejected. Evaluating the stability of the marine ice sheet
equilibrium ...
2
Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis: Working ...
... a widespread discharge of many ice streams and hence a destabilisation of the
entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Ice sheet models are only beginning to capture
such small-scale dynamical processes that involve complicated interactions with
...
Moving Sheet Ice (Skim Ice) In addition to border ice, thermal ice growth can
produce large sheets of ice without attachment to the shores, commonly known
as skim ice. Matousek (1984b) attributes the formation of skim ice to low water
surface ...
4
Glacial Marine Sedimentation: Paleoclimatic Significance
If that mass of ice is grounded over an extensive area of the sea floor, it becomes
a marine ice sheet, ice rise, or rumple depending on the scale involved. Climatic
setting of modern glacial marine environments Presently, marine ice sheets and ...
John B. Anderson, Gail Mowry Ashley, 1991
5
Encyclopedia of Snow,
Ice and Glaciers
Melting at the ice sheet fringes can be enhanced externally, by the heat transfer
from ocean waters feeding the underside of the floating portions of the ice sheet (
ice shelves), and delivering warmer water to the ice sheet grounding line (the ...
Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, 2011
6
The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of ...
... that comparatively little surface melting occurs on the continental ice sheet; ice
loss is mainly by iceberg calving, the rates of which are determined by dynamic
processes involving long response times (thousands of years). Even if Antarctica
...
Robert T. Watson, Marufu C. Zinyowera, Richard H. Moss, 1998
7
Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers
this it follows that sheet ice was mainly characteristic of the coldest months,
January and February. The high winds and wave action of the late fall months
tended to inhibit its formation. A sudden drop in temperature in calm weather
could form ...
George Woodman Hilton, 2002
8
After the
Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
... nor whether the Arctic islands were covered by a mosaic of separate ice caps (
as in the figure) or an undivided ice sheet. Ice sheets and ice caps (small ice
sheets) are by no means inert. On the contrary, they grow when they are "fed"
and ...
9
Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann ...
Sheet ice is formed when the water is very calm; it skims over and then gets
thicker and thicker, depending on how long the temperature stays below freezing.
Sheet ice can be anywhere from a fraction of an inch to several feet thick. The
early ...
10
Technical and Economic Problems of Channel Icing
2. £ EFFERENT ICE FORMS 2.1 SURFACE SHEET ICE Sheet ice is formed on
lakes, canals and slow flowing waterways as these water bodies cool to the
freezing point of the water and the surface of the water freezes. The rate of ice ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEET ICE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
sheet ice is used in the context of the following news items.
Freezing rain causes more than 100 crashes in Cumbria
He said: "All of the county's roads have been affected by ice and we are ... on to frozen roads had created sheet ice and led to hazardous roads and pavements. «BBC News, Feb 12»
