Sentences with phrase «sea embayment»

, in the most critical area glaciologically (the Amundsen Sea embayment), I'm afraid you may well find that the media you complain about will indeed emphasize the red even more than last time.

Robert D. Larter, Alastair G.C. Graham, Karsten Gohl, Gerhard Kuhn, Claus - Dieter Hillenbrand, James A. Smith, Tara J. Deen, Roy A. Livermore, Hans - Werner Schenke; Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo — ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica.

We present new multibeam swath bathymetry data analyzed alongside sparse preexisting data from the Amundsen Sea embayment.

Even as Rignot and colleagues suggest that loss of the Amundsen Sea embayment glaciers appears inevitable, it remains extremely difficult to predict exactly how this ice loss will unfold and how long it will take.

The pace and magnitude of the changes observed in this region match the expectation that Amundsen Sea embayment glaciers should be less stable than others.

They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.

There is growing evidence2, 3,4 that MISI may be underway throughout the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE), which contains ice equivalent to more than a metre of global sea - level rise.

«The Amundsen Sea embayment is a probable site for the initiation of a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

It flows, together with Thwaites Ice Stream, into the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, and the two ice streams together drain ~ 5 % of the Antarctic Ice Sheet1.

On the glacier scale, thinning is strongest in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE), where it is confirmed as being localized on the fast - flowing glaciers and their tributaries (Fig. 3 [below].

In Antarctica, dynamic thinning has accelerated at the grounding lines of the major glaciers of the Amundsen Sea embayment, and in places has penetrated to within 100 km of the ice divides.

Not exact matches

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

Large floating ice shelves had formed in the Ross Sea and Weddell Sea marine embayments after WAIS had collapsed in those sectors after the LGM, and I had concluded that these ice shelves, being confined and pinned at places to the sea floor, were now buttressing these sectors of WAIS, preventing further collapSea and Weddell Sea marine embayments after WAIS had collapsed in those sectors after the LGM, and I had concluded that these ice shelves, being confined and pinned at places to the sea floor, were now buttressing these sectors of WAIS, preventing further collapSea marine embayments after WAIS had collapsed in those sectors after the LGM, and I had concluded that these ice shelves, being confined and pinned at places to the sea floor, were now buttressing these sectors of WAIS, preventing further collapsea floor, were now buttressing these sectors of WAIS, preventing further collapse.

However, upon inspecting the large map of Antarctica published by the American Geographical Society in 1970, George Denton and I noticed that one - third of the remaining WAIS were drained by two large ice streams that entered Pine Island Bay, an ice - free embayment in the Amundsen Sea sector.

Melting is accelerating at the Amundsen embayment across the Antarctic Peninsula from the Weddell Sea.