ice sheet
美 
英
词形变化
复数：ice sheets
英汉双解
1. | 冰原；冰盖a layer of ice that covers a large area of land for a long period of time |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
It's unlikely the water, at least at this site, is in the form of an ice sheet, Colaprete said.
这些水不太可能以冰原的形态存在，起码在这个地点不是，克拉普雷特说。
However, the transport of a large ice sheet might be expected to mark the playa surface in other ways - these marks have not been found.
但是，这种大型冰盖的移动很可能会产生其他的痕迹，而我们现在仍然什么都没有发现。
A helicopter will take her to Swiss Camp, a research station on the ice sheet with its own sauna.
她将乘坐直升飞机前往建于冰盖上配有桑拿浴室的研究基站SwissCamp。
Until February, it had been the tongue of the Mertz Glacier, sticking out from the East Antarctic ice sheet into the Southern Ocean.
到二月，它已然成为了默茨冰川的突出部分，从东南极冰盖延伸入南大洋。
The strait's status in turn affected ocean currents, which affected the rate of ice sheet melting during the last glacial period.
在上次冰河时代，白令海峡这种周期性的开闭，影响了洋流，进而影响冰盖融化的速度。
His paper warned that the vast ice sheet on the western side of Antarctica might be starting to break up.
他在文章中警告称，南极洲西侧的大冰原可能已开始破裂。
Now imagine that the ice sheet is vertical rather than horizontal. This should give you some sense of the challenge of ice-climbing.
现在想象一下把水平的冰面立起来，这就会让你有攀冰的感觉。
But until quite recently, they disagreed over the likelihood of a catastrophic breakup of the western ice sheet in the near future.
但是直到不久前，对于西部冰原不久之后是否会爆发毁灭性崩解，专家仍有歧见。
But it did not destabilise the ice sheet or provide a new reason to worry about rising sea levels.
但这并没有导致大冰盖发生不稳定现象，也无法为海平面上升的担忧提供新的依据。
We just had a number of cameras out on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
我们刚在格陵兰冰原上放出了一些摄相机。
At least 386 lakes have been identified buried beneath the ice sheet, scientists from the University of Edinburgh reported at the meeting.
在该次会议上，爱丁堡大学的科学家们报告称，在南极的冰层下至少埋藏有386个湖泊。
Pine Island glacier (PIG) is one of many at the fringes of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
松岛冰川是位于南极西陲冰原上众多冰川中的一个。
Having begun his career as a sailor, Robin concluded that the mirror like surface must be water underneath the ice sheet.
罗宾的职业生涯始于航海，他的结论是，那些镜子般的表面必然是冰原下的水。
THAT THE AREA of the West Antarctic ice sheet drained by the Ross ice streams is in less danger of imminent collapse is good news.
南极洲西部冰原被罗斯冰流带走的面积，还没有到达立即崩解的地步，这可是一项好消息；
Even under such conditions, it would still take thousands of years for the Greenland ice sheet to disappear, Steffen said.
即便在这种情况下，可能还要持续数千年，格陵兰冰盖才会彻底消失。
The only uncertainty is the time it would take for complete ice sheet disintegration.
唯一不确定的是要多久完整的冰层才会分崩离析。
Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.
蓝色条纹通常是当冰层上的裂缝被融冰填充再极速凝固的过程中没有产生气泡而形成的状态。
Melt along the southern edge of Greenland's ice sheet is now moving up its northwest coast, a new study shows.
一项新的研究表明，格陵兰冰盖南部沿线的冰融如今正蔓延到它的西北海岸线。
But by whatever mechanism, the giant Greenland ice sheet was accelerating across its rocky moorings and toward the sea.
不过，不管是何种机制，格陵兰冰原正从岩石上方加速向海面滑动。
The current form of the Mississippi River basin was largely shaped by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet of the most recent Ice Age.
密西西比河目前的结构绝大部分是由最近的冰川时代的科迪拉山系的冰川形成的。
Several metres of sea level rise is now inevitable as the Greenland ice sheet disappears.
现在，随着格陵兰冰原的消失，海平面上升几米已是不可避免。
There is 10 feet of sea level rise stored up in the unstable part of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
西南极冰架的不稳定部分一旦融化，会让海平面上升10英尺。
He teaches his son how to use computer to predict whether the ice - sheet on a near-by lake is thick enough to skate.
他还教儿子用电脑计算附近湖泊的冰层厚度是否宜于溜冰；
The rumblings of glacial earthquakes have become increasingly frequent along the ice sheet's outlet glaciers.
沿著注出冰河，冰河地震发出的隆隆声也越来越频繁。
although building of glaciers is slow , once an ice sheet begins to collapse , its demise can be spectacularly rapid.
虽然冰河的形成很慢，但是一旦冰原开始瓦解，冰河的死期就不远了。
The instrument's nervous system comprises 86 strands of light detectors, stretching down into the ice sheet like oversize strings of pearls.
站中那个由86根光探测器组成的神经系统像一串巨大的珍珠项链深入冰层。
The Greenland Ice Sheet, a large mass of ice that covers most of Greenland, has been melting at an increasing rate since the early 1990s.
从二十世纪90年代起，覆盖格林兰岛大部分区域的格林兰冰盖以越来越快的速度融化。
Westerners may shrug at the decline of traditional hunting but, in a sense, we all live on the Greenland ice sheet now.
西方人也许对传统捕猎的减少不以为然，但是，从某种意义上来说，我们现在也依靠格陵兰冰盖而活。
Former Vice President Al Gore joined the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nordic countries to discuss the Greenland ice sheet in Copenhagen.
前副总统戈尔参加了北欧国家的部长内阁会议，讨论哥本哈根格陵兰冰盖。
But scientists thought there was much less meltwater, playing a far less important role in ice sheet structure, than the new work suggests.
但是，跟这项新研究的发现相比，当时科学家们认为远远没有那么多融水，对于冰盖的结构也远远起不到那么重要的作用。
Majestic blue icebergs the size of small islands float outside its harbour; its ice fjord drains 7% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet.
体积堪比小型岛屿的蓝色壮丽冰山漂浮在该城海港外的水域；其冰层峡湾为格陵兰冰盖上7%的土地排水防涝。
will install instruments to measure the movement of the ice sheet through the major outlet glaciers.
在格陵兰，冰河学家将安装仪器、透过主要的注出冰河来测量冰原的运动。
As the ice flows towards the coast, grating on bedrock, crevasses and new fractures form in the upper 100 feet of the ice sheet.
随着冰向海岸流动，在基岩上冲出孔洞，在冰盖上部100英尺形成冰隙和新的裂缝。
The Laurentide ice sheet retreated and left mass amounts of water in the basins the glacier had carved thus making the great lakes.
劳伦泰德冰盖退却，在冰川雕刻的盆地里留下大量的水，从而形成大湖。
While it normally shrinks in summer and grows in winter, this ice sheet is important to the earth for a number of reasons.
它通常在夏季缩小在冬季生长，这些冰对地球很重要是有很多原因。
If Weertman's thinking was correct, it meant that the modern ice sheet was already a shrunken version of its former self.
如果惠特曼是正确的，就意谓著现代冰原已经是过去的缩小版。
The numerical modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet is an important way to improve our understanding of the behavior of the ice sheet.
数值模拟南极冰盖是提升人们认识南极冰盖演化行为的重要手段。
Placea sphere of nuclear waste in a stable ice sheet and it could melt its way down, the ice re-solidifying behind it.
将核废料球放入较为稳定的冰原，它们会随着周围冰的融化向下移动，身后的融冰则又再次凝固。
Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity.
东南极冰盖内部降水与中纬阻塞高压活动。
"Our theory links an external climate-driven process, the melting of the ice sheet, and earthquakes. "
“我们的理论将外部气候驱动过程，冰盖融化与地震联系起来。”
