Sentences with phrase «wais change»

Although the timescale is highly uncertain, a qualitative WAIS change could occur within this millennium, with collapse within 300 years being a worst - case scenario.

WAIS models: Payne (2004); observed WAIS changes: Thomas (2004), Siegert (2004).

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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.

Two separate studies published last spring suggest that climate change has carried the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, across a similar threshold.

I look forward to more research on the changing heat balance of the WAIS.

Triple water.isotopologue record from WAIS Divide, Antarctica: controls on glacial - interglacial changes in 17Oexcess of precipitation.

WAIS Divide ice core suggests sustained changes in the atmospheric formation pathways of sulfate and nitrate since the 19th century in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14, p. 5749 - 5769.

Zhang and Gong broke up; Gong tried Hollywood («Chinese Box,» «Miami Vice») and worked with Wong Kar - wai; Zhang turned to Zhang Ziyi for his films; and the Chinese film market has undergone a sea change.

Renowned auteur and director Wong Kar - wai revealed that he changed the title for his latest martial arts epic, «The Grandmaster», from «The Grandmasters» after his son asked him why.

In a series of papers, we've shown that the warmer temperatures observed over the WAIS are the result of those same atmospheric circulation changes, which are not related to the SAM, but rather to the remote forcing from changes in the tropical Pacific: changes in the character of ENSO (Steig et al., 2012; Ding et al., 2011; 2012).

This article is an examination of observation of rapid changes of a significant WAIS glacier, and the implications for this glacier.

The base of the 3000 - m thick West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)-- unlike the much larger East Antarctic Ice Sheet — lies below sea level, and it has been recognized for a long time that this means it has the potential to change very rapidly.

When I was in Antarctica in 1995, what the glaciologists were saying about the WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet], is that its changes will mostly likely take a long time, but there was a wild card, in that there are volcanoes under that ice, and if one were to erupt, things could change very quickly.

Already it's thought that the WAIS will likely melt as the climate changes, and that sea level will rise as a few meters as a result.

TagsAntarctica, East Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, WAIS, EAIS, University of Pennsylvania, North Dakota State University, Purdue University, Pliocene, Pliocene Period, climate change, carbon dioxide

WAIS is largely marine - based, highly sensitive to climatic and oceanographic changes and if completely melted, could result in a global sea - level rise of up to four metres.

The situation in Antarctica is being assessed constantly and changes that may have already occurred (such as with the WAIS ice sheet - below) are being discovered.

Results of a recent long - term and large - scale simulation of the collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) show that the destabilization of the entire ice sheet would be irreversible if current conditions don't change by 2075.