"It's weaker than thick, multiyear ice, " says University of Colorado scientist James Maslanik, "and less resistant to melting."
“这些冰比那些厚的多年冰脆弱,”科罗拉多大学科学家詹姆斯·马斯兰尼克说,“也更容易融化。”
The large white circular shapes in this image are pieces of multiyear ice carried to this location by the East Greenland Current.
图像中巨大的白色圆形结构就是东格陵兰洋流搬运多年的海冰冰块。
Even farther out to sea than the large fragments of multiyear ice are much smaller pieces of ice—so small that they are at the mercy of even small surface currents.
距离这些大块的陈年浮冰区更远的海洋里,浮冰的尺寸要小得多,小得甚至可以被海洋表层细小洋流任意摆布。
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