Sentences with phrase «ice sheet retreat driven»
Pollard, D., Deconto, R. M. & Alley, R. B. Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure.
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«Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat Driven by Hydrofracturing and Ice Cliff Failure.»
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We determine that this difference is driven by the growth and retreat of large continental ice sheets that are present in the cold ice - age climates; these ice sheets reflect a lot of sunlight and their growth consequently amplifies the impact of CO2 changes.»
Ice sheets begin to retreat from their maximum extent due to the increase in sunlight driven by the overall orbital variations.
Black carbon disrupts the South Asian monsoon (by altering the land - sea temperature gradient that drives the movement of moist air), helps melt the Greenland ice sheet (by increasing the solar energy the darkened ice absorbs), and accelerates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.
Carlson, A.E., F.S. Anslow, E.A. Obbink, A.N. LeGrande, D.J. Ullman, and J.M Licciardi (2009) Surface - melt driven Laurentide Ice Sheet retreat during the early Holocene.
Early Holocene summer warmth drove dramatic Greenland ice sheet (GIS) retreat.