Sentences with phrase «parts of the ice sheet considered»

Parts of the ice sheet considered at risk hold enough ice to raise the global sea level by 22 feet.

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Parts of the massive ice sheet once considered stable have been shown to be melting in new research

The data used in the study included more than 455,000 independent estimates of changes in the land elevation of the vast ice sheets covering Antarctica, both in the western part of the continent, where ice is melting more rapidly, and in the east, where the ice is considered to be more stable, for the time being at least.

It used to be considered the last stable part of the Greenland ice sheet,» said one of the team, Michael Bevis of Ohio State University in the US.

Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record ice mass loss was being observed and measured.