The Punta de Vacas gauge station is located 62 km downstream from Piloto Glacier, and the basin contains 3.0% of uncovered glacier ice and 3.7% of debris-covered ice.
Most of the snow melted and then froze again, and the ground was covered in ice.
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The cable would be covered with ice where it is expected that it would be subjected to a stable minus 50 deg C.
During glacial ages that exist about 90% of the time, our Northern Hemisphere is mostly covered with ice up to several miles thick.
For instance, sea ice is predicted to increasingly shrink as a result of climate change: the late-summer Arctic sea ice may vanish almost entirely by the middle of the century, triggering unprecedented maritime challenges, with an increase in shipping and oil and gas exploration in high-latitude waters previously covered in ice.
Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.
Most of Greenland is covered by an ice cap, but the acceleration of Arctic melting is making it easier to tap the territory's resources.
Compared to September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, this represents a 45 percent reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice.
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According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea-ice covered 4.5 million sq km (1.7 million sq miles) at its lowest point on 12 September last year.
The amount of the Arctic covered by sea ice fell in late August to the lowest point since satellite observations began in 1979, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.
It's covered in sea ice a lot of the time and very few people live nearby, so it doesn't get too much attention except from hearty types like climate scientist Max Holmes.
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One afternoon, with the Explorer docked in gorgeous Orne Harbor at the northern end of the Errera Chanel, with ice covered peaks and penguins all around, I unpacked my Tonx bag and started brewing.
The Amazon is now said to begin in an ice-covered mountain in southern Peru called Mismi.
The ice mass covered up about 2.5 miles of shoreline, he said.
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For example, the bright snow- and ice-covered landscapes of Canada and Siberia during winter reflect most solar radiation straight back into space, keeping the surface cold.
Global warming may make their northern wastes more habitable and allow them to exploit oil and gas located under what is now an ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
For example, much of the UK is still rebounding after the melting of the great mass of ice that covered the country thousands of years ago.
But further measurements using a laser and looking for reflections showed that much of the ice is covered with a layer of dark material tens of centimetres thick.
The Kansas Department of Transportation reported that many highways in the central part of the state, including Interstate 70, were completely covered by snow and ice on Monday morning.
Being so far north, much of region - some 146, 000 square km - is covered by glaciers and ice caps (a type of ice field where glaciers flow off in many directions).
Most of Greenland is covered by a sheet of ice that averages more than a mile thick.
But since it has been largely covered with year-round ice throughout modern history, it is the least mapped ocean.
The study revealed a complex network of ponds and rivers, the largest of which occurred under the Whillans ice stream and covered an area of 500 sq km (190 sq miles).
Drivers in Pennsylvania were traversing ice- and snow-covered streets and highways.
Standing at 4, 465m (14, 649ft) and covered in a treacherous carpet of snow and ice, Mont Maudit near Chamonix, is a challenge for the most intrepid climbers.
Once at the motor sports complex, journalists took turns testing all-wheel-drive XJs and smaller XFs, which also get the system as an option for 2013, by flinging them through various obstacle courses, every one of which was covered in several inches of snow with thick ice underneath.
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With 102 holes drilled so far, hundreds of measurements have been made of ice thickness and snow cover over the 243km covered to date.
Mr. Campagna and his colleagues argue that at some time in the past few hundred thousand years, during a part of the ice age when much of South America was covered with grasslands, an ancestral species of capuchino expanded rapidly across the continent.
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It takes seven or eight hours and strong legs to hike the whole crossing, past ice-blue crater lakes, over snow-covered ridges and through windswept mountain deserts, where totara trees cling to the soft black volcanic sand.
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