{"id":26844,"date":"2019-12-01T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T23:36:52","slug":"word-of-the-day-516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/01\/word-of-the-day-516\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Polynya<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gigantic hole in Antarctica\u2019s sea ice has perplexed scientists for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the help of robots, satellites, and seals with sensors strapped to their heads, a team of researchers has discovered that climate, salt levels, and an underwater mountain all contribute to the weird recurring phenomenon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1294-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a study published Monday in\u00a0<i>Nature<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The massive \u201cpolynya,\u201d which is the term for an area of open water surrounded by sea ice, occasionally appears in the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic northwest, seemingly at random. The size and frequency of the offshore polynya are not closely correlated with temperatures, suggesting a more complex mechanism drives its formation process. [<em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mb8x7n\/mysterious-hole-in-antarctic-sea-ice-explained-by-robots-and-seals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mysterious Hole in Antarctic Sea Ice Explained by Robots and Seals<\/a>,&#8221; Becky Ferreira<\/em>, <strong>Vice<\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polynya: A gigantic hole in Antarctica\u2019s sea ice has perplexed scientists for decades. Now, with the help of robots, satellites, and seals with sensors strapped to their heads, a team of researchers has discovered that climate, salt levels, and an underwater mountain all contribute to the weird recurring phenomenon,\u00a0according to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/12\/01\/word-of-the-day-516\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26846,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions\/26846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}