加拿大北极群岛常年几乎没有降水,降雪量微乎其微。
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago generally receives little precipitation, and the amount of snowfall changes little from year to year.
郝伟说,事实上,加拿大北极群岛起到了将能够毁坏船只的多年冰引入西北通道的作用。
In fact, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago acts as a "drain trap" for ship-wrecking multiyear ice, Howell says.
两年前通往加拿大北极群岛的海峡的道上满是冰层,而现在已是一片无冰水域或者只是点缀着正在融化的浮冰。
Channels through the Canadian Arctic archipelago that were choked with ice at this time of year two decades ago are now expanses of open water or vast patchworks of tiny islands of melting ice.
在加拿大北极群岛岛屿的领土,包括银行岛,伯顿岛,帕特里克王子岛和维多利亚岛和梅尔维尔岛部分。
Territorial islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago include Banks island, Borden island, Prince Patrick island, and parts of Victoria island and Melville island.
如今构成加拿大北极群岛的岩石在数百万年以前只是一个叫Pangaea(泛古陆)的超大陆西北海岸以外的海底沉淀物。
Rocks that now make up the northernmost islands of the Canadian Arctic formed millions of years ago as seafloor sediments off the northwestern coast of a supercontinent called Pangaea.
加拿大北极群岛一般少有新的冰川形成,并且每年的降雪量差不多。 但冰雪融化量却大不相同,所以冰量的变化主要由夏季融化量决定。
Sharply increased mass loss from glaciers and ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
加德勒补充到,“它们主要来自于加拿大北极群岛、美国阿拉斯加、南美洲巴塔哥尼亚和喜马拉雅山脉的冰川,以及格陵兰和南极冰盖附近的一些小规模的冰川。”
Most of the ice loss is coming from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the smaller ice masses surrounding the main Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
加德勒补充到,“它们主要来自于加拿大北极群岛、美国阿拉斯加、南美洲巴塔哥尼亚和喜马拉雅山脉的冰川,以及格陵兰和南极冰盖附近的一些小规模的冰川。”
Most of the ice loss is coming from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the smaller ice masses surrounding the main Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
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