Sentences with phrase «ice sheet changes particularly»
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This effect is particularly apparent in parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), long regarded as the more vulnerable part of the continent to climate change.
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What is particularly concerning is how easy it is for climate change to increase the water temperatures beside Antarctic ice sheets.»
BANGLADESH is one of the countries at most risk from climate change, as it is low - lying and could be swamped by rising seas — particularly if they rise by several metres (see «Ice sheets on course for collapse «-RRB-.
Interactions between the ocean and ice sheets are particularly important in determining ice sheet changes, as a warming ocean can melt the ice shelves, the tongues of ice that extend from the ice sheets into the ocean and buttress the large land - based ice sheets [92], [202]--[203].
Most geologic sea level changes are related to tectonic processes (rates of ocean spreading, continental subduction etc.) or the waxing and waning of ice sheets (particularly over the last 2.5 million years).
Interactions between the ocean and ice sheets are particularly important in determining ice sheet changes, as a warming ocean can melt the ice shelves, the tongues of ice that extend from the ice sheets into the ocean and buttress the large land - based ice sheets [92], [202]--[203].
It is such «moderate» sea - level change for which we particularly question the projections implied by current ice sheet models.
Future changes in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet mass, particularly due to changes in ice flow, are a major source of uncertainty that could increase sea level rise projections.