Sentences with phrase «about that ice stream»

What is it that you find intriguing about that ice stream?

Much remains mysterious about ice streams in Greenland — and even vaster ones in Antarctica, which have also surged ominously.

Not exact matches

The Zachariae ice stream is about twice the size of Jakobshavn, extending some 373 miles into the interior.

It's one of the largest ice streams draining the West Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long and about 100 kilometres wide.

Increased ice flow in this region is particularly troubling, Khan said, because the northeast ice stream stretches more than 600 kilometers (about 373 miles) into the center of the ice sheet, where it connects with the heart of Greenland's ice reservoir.

The Zachariae ice stream retreated about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) over the last decade, the researchers concluded.

I didn't realise I'd broken it, and it was beautiful weather, and I pitched my tent and stuck my leg into an ice - cold stream for about two days.

Petermann Gletscher drains about 4 % of the Greenland ice sheet via a network of channels and streams that extend about 750 km landward from the grounding line (Bamber et al., 2013).

A recent example of this is the debate that has arisen about the interactions between the jet stream and blocking events and the degree of ice cover in the Arctic.

Summary: While we quake in fear at the stream of apocalyptic forecasts fed us by the news media, let's look back at two previous forecasts about rising sea levels and melting sea ice.

A Danish team last year also raised concern about the 600 - kilometre Zachariae ice stream, and confirmed that ice loss in the northeast of the island was accelerating.

The ice stream's speed - up and near - doubling of ice flow from land into the ocean has increased the rate of sea level rise by about.06 millimeters (about.002 inches) per year, or roughly 4 percent of the 20th century rate of sea level increase.