Sentences with phrase «about ice sheet stability»

Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys, in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged in the 1970's.

Or we could talk some more about ice sheet stability.

Not exact matches

Two studies open deep history of Greenland's ice sheet, and raise new questions about its stability.»

In fact, learning about the lakes and rivers could shed light (albeit from a very dark place) on weighty matters ranging from ice - sheet stability — how much do the lakes enhance the flow of ice toward the sea?

The research team found the evidence confirming the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet at an altitude of 6,200 feet, about 400 miles from the South Pole at the edge of what's called the polar plateau, a flat, high surface of the ice sheet covering much of East Antarctica.

Working together we can make seismic and GPS measurements that are needed for understanding key issues about Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet stability.

i would much rather discuss and learn about cloud models, ocean circulation, ice sheet stability than repeatedly counter ignorant arguments by innumerate dunces.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

The paper does not venture any estimate about ice loss or predict the ice sheets» stability, but says only global warming can logically explain the temperature trend.

«There's been a lot of speculation about the stability of marine ice sheets, and many scientists suspected that this kind of behavior is under way,» Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a news release about one of the studies published Monday.

This raises new concern about the overall stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would trigger another five to six metres [approximately 16 to 20 feet] of sea level rise.