{"id":1363,"date":"2010-02-14T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:02:00","slug":"melt-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/melt-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Melt pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSCN4956-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4956\" title=\"DSCN4956\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1374 colorbox-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSCN4956-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DSCN4956-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The picture is not of the pond at Fossil Bluff it is one of a very small glacier a few km from base.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melt_pond\">melt pond <\/a>which is forming outside fossil bluff hut which sometimes gets so large that a boat is required to get from the ski way to the hut. Ponds of melted water can also develop under the ice. These ponds absorb the sun&#8217;s energy, rather than reflecting it as ice does, thereby having a significant influence on Earth&#8217;s radiation balance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture is not of the pond at Fossil Bluff it is one of a very small glacier a few km from base. There is a melt pond which is forming outside fossil bluff hut which sometimes gets so large that a boat is required to get from the ski way to the hut. Ponds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}