meltwater造句
1. The meltwater puddled the flat sea ice.
2. Manycommunities depend entirely on glacial meltwater.
3. Some are long-lived, fed by annual influxes of melt-water.
4. These cling without roots and survive on atmospheric moisture, trickles of melt-water or trapped snow and rain.
5. Permafrost restricts drainage; melt-water can not sink into the ground and in summer the thin active layer soon becomes waterlogged.
6. Melting glaciers that supply meltwater for half the world's population and the constriction of rivers by hundreds of dams are also major problems, they say.
7. As glaciers shrink and meltwater lakes grow, the threat to nearby communities increases.
8. The meltwater from the glacier on top of the volcano ran down into the crater, chilling the magma and then the pressure from underneath caused an explosion.
9. In Mingyong, surging meltwater has carried away topsoil; elsewhere, excess runoff has been blamed for more frequent flooding and landslides.
10. For centuries, the population has depended on meltwater from the glaciers of the high mountains to irrigate their farmland.
11. Warmer temperatures mean more ponds of meltwater on the ice's surface.
12. Caption: Meltwater lakes and streams on the surface of an ice - east of Jakobshavns glacier, Greenland.
13. The meltwater causes temperatures near shore to drop, and Child said the deaths must be linked to hypothermia.
14. Meltwater has carved a canyon 150 feet (45 meters) deep.
15. Warmer conditions can send meltwater to the glacier's base, increasing lubrication and consequently glacier speed.
16. The Gulf Stream carries tropical heat from the Caribbean to northern Europe but is already being disrupted by meltwater pouring from the Arctic as global warming intensifies.
17. No one quite knows why glaciers and ice shelves are melting so fast, or how a meltwater lake on the Greenland ice sheet covering six square kilometres could drain away in 24 hours, as it did in 2006.
18. Record high temperatures in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus River System.
19. Snowpack was also lighter than normal in Colorado, which depends on mountain meltwater for much of its freshwater.
20. The image here illustrates how these pockets and streams of warm meltwater permeate glaciers and ice sheets.
21. There is no road back to the scent of the Julys when I was young and leapt from a boulder into the ice-cold meltwater of a Norwegian fjord.
22. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.
23. More than a billion people in Asia rely on glacial meltwater for a steady, year-round supply of fresh water.
24. We spent much of our first day walking beside the Dudh Kosi, known as the "river of milk" because glacier meltwater has turned it a lovely milky green colour.
25. Until water flowed through the tether, the team could not tell if the meltwater was draining into the firn or accumulating around the drill, which could freeze the borehole shut.