Polar Ice Cap - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Polar ice caps refer to large areas of ice that cover the polar regions, where temperatures can drop to extreme lows, causing the ocean to freeze and ice to build up to significant …
Polar Cap - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The polar ice caps, and especially Antarctica’s, play a very important role for the climate because they are both the world’s glacial archives and a sensitive indicator of current fluctuations in …
Mitigating ice sheets and mountain glaciers melt with …
Feb 1, 2025 · The combined use of these technologies holds promise for mitigating glacier and ice sheet melt by lowering surface and basal temperatures, reducing meltwater and lubrication …
Water ice concentration and distribution in the Martian south …
May 15, 2024 · Massive layers of dry ice were also detected by SHARAD across nearly reflection-free subsurface zones (RFZ) in the polar layered deposits (Phillips et al., 2011, Alwarda and …
A comparison of CO2 seasonal activity in Mars' northern and …
Sep 1, 2024 · The longer southern fall and winter allows more time for CO 2 ice to accumulate and densify in the southern hemisphere. Northern winter coincides with the perihelion dust …
State of polar climate in 2023 - ScienceDirect
Oct 1, 2024 · For melt season, Arctic Ocean sea ice began to melt later in 2023 than the 2011–2023 average, and freeze onset was delayed due to high temperatures in summer and …
The evidence and implications of polar ice during the Mesozoic
Nov 1, 1999 · The theoretical need to invoke the presence of polar ice, which is often seen as an inviting mechanism to account for faunal and floral distribution patterns and large-scale sea …
Interannual and seasonal changes in the north polar ice deposits …
May 1, 2015 · Table 1 summarizes the Earth dates and Mars years for seasonal cap retreat and summer observations of the polar region. To date we have observed 3 seasonal recession …
A hypothesis for undetectable flow at the polar layered deposits of ...
Jul 15, 2024 · The polar ice caps of Mars have been studied telescopically for centuries, dating back to Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1666. In the Nineteenth Century, telescopes improved, …
Glaciers and ice caps: Vulnerable water resources in a warming …
Dec 1, 2013 · The large polar ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland together with smaller glaciers and ice caps in mountain regions worldwide cover about 10% of Earth's land surface …