Sentences with phrase «antarctic shelf ice»

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Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

Melting of arctic sea - ice, antarctic ice shelves, and mountain ice and snow exposes the darker rock, soil, or sea beneath; which then absorb more of the Sun's heat and further warm the Earth.

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.