Sentences with phrase «antarctic land ice»

Not exact matches

They range from LANDSAT images of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, to fish catches off California since the 1920s, to 400,000 years of global temperature estimates from antarctic ice cores.

T, his was sho \ vn not only by the rise of temperature at land stations, but also by the clccrease in the amount of ice in arctic and probably also in antarctic regions and by the rise of sea temperatures.

Mercer (1968, 1978) proposed that atmospheric warming could cause the ice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrIce Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metres.

Most predictions I've seen show a net warming at the poles after all it is the antarctic land based ice which will eventually flood the earth.