Sentences with phrase «as an ice shelf»

The AMIGOS on Flask and Leppard will show how the glaciers speed up as the ice shelf holding them back collapses.

Nonetheless, Khazendar and his colleagues say that two of the glaciers flowing into Larsen C have already begun to accelerate as the ice shelf has weakened.

CLIMATE CALAMITIES As ice shelves on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula weaken, glaciers flow faster into the sea.

At this point, the ice becomes disconnected from the ground and turns into a kind of floating ledge, known as an ice shelf, that juts out into the ocean from the front of the glacier.

As the ice shelf thins, more water is able to circulate beneath it22, exacerbating the problem and encouraging further melting.

The possibility of breakup increases as the ice shelf thins.

18 December 2002: As ice shelf retreat continues past the grounding line, the lower portion of the glacier accelerates rapidly.

As ice shelves collapse the glaciers behind them retreat more quickly, causing further sea - level rise.

«As ice shelves continuously lose ice by calving, it is essential to know how far the recession of ice shelves may progress before buttressing potential is reduced.»

the sedimentary record (Jakobsson et al., 2011), and our physical understanding (Alley et al., 2008) suggest that beyond some threshold ice - shelf reduction leads to complete loss as the ice shelf calves away, potentially in less than or much less than one year.

He told Earther that initially, scientists wanted to gather information on surface melt in all seasons on the Larsen C ice shelf, which sits at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (you may remember it as the ice shelf the calved a trillion - ton iceberg last summer).

Okay, so if a part of an ice cap (or glacier) is grounded on the sea bed (below sea level) that part is not defined as an ice shelf.

Determine the different kinds of sediment that would occur during each part of the climate cycle you created above, as the ice shelf is advancing and retreating.

The grounding lines, where the ice sheet detaches from the bedrock and floats on the ocean as an ice shelf, will retreat.

Not exact matches

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

But just as the founders began to get the ice cream on store shelves nationwide, the company's finances were on thin ice.

It offers ready - to - eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, refrigerated and frozen dough products, dessert and baking mixes, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, shelf stable and frozen vegetables, and ice cream and frozen desserts, as well as grain, fruit and savory snacks; and various organic products, including nutrition bars, meal kits, salty snacks, and ready - to - eat cereal.

Nothing says Christmas like peppermint ice cream in my world — as soon as it hits the shelves, I've got a gallon in my freezer!

The line quickly expanded beyond strawberry and piña colada, and today Island Oasis has 18 frozen flavors, including non-fat yogurt and ice cream, as well as an aseptic (shelf - stable) line of flavors.

Each sister company of the group has its own Food Division, proposing a broad and complete product line to satisfy all expectations in terms of taste, yield, texture, appearance, consistency, safety, label and shelf - life for all main food applications, such as bakery, ice creams, milk derivates, dairy products, dessert and confectionery, drinks and beverages, sweet and savory snacks, meat and fish.

While Millennials also expressed high importance for clean label baked bread options, they ranked clean label in all other categories as almost equally important (sausages, snacks, ice cream, shelf stable sides and frozen meal).

Gold award winners included: Brazil's Froneri for a cardboard ice cream cup featuring a PP in - mold label, closure with spoon inside and aluminum / PE sealing; and Insignia Technologies for its Freshtag shelf - life indicator tag designed to change color over a pre-set number of days at a prescribed temperature, while the color change is faster when the temperature increases; and PPi Technologies for MosquitoPaQ, which uses a frangible sealed pouch that allows consumers to mix and activate the dry and wet chemicals at the time of use, without having to pour out or touch the contents; after activation, consumers hang the pouch nearby and leave it alone as the repellent is released over the course of 15 days.

He is an unabashed collector of newspaper clippings, documents and gimcracks, and the walls and shelves in the office are blanketed with such oddments as ice axes and pitons, a photograph of John Glenn (whom Day resembles), a quotation from President Lyndon Johnson deploring procrastination, college diplomas, membership certificates from the Rotary Club, fraternities, outdoorsmen's clubs and the American Airlines» Admirals Club, and a number of framed letters from such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Stuart Udall.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

Concern has increased with recent failures of floating Antarctic ice, such as the Wilkins shelf.

Lake Whillans has a subsurface connection with the ocean beneath the ice shelf, making it more dynamic than isolated lakes such as Vostok.

As it turns out, the ice shelf hasn't covered the traps after all.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

Just as Larsen A underwent its now notorious collapse, the Prince Gustav ice shelf, 60 kilometers to the north, also vanished.

The shelves act as a buttress to the «grounded» ice, helping slow the flow of the ice sheet's glaciers into the ocean.

As winds strengthen, scouring will likely increase, potentially worsening the prognosis for ice shelves in a way no one anticipated.

Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf appears as a thin line of slightly warmer area.

But as the chain of ice shelf collapse pushes farther south from the peninsula's tip toward the mainland, to Larsen B and Scar Inlet, it is now entering the ominous realm of historical anomaly.

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

Next up, south of Larsen B and Scar Inlet, is the Larsen C ice shelf, which covers 49,000 square kilometers — twice as large as the state of Maryland, or about 820 Manhattans.

«The disintegration came as a total surprise,» says Scambos, who, with scientists at the British Antarctic Survey, has been monitoring the continent's ice shelves continually via satellite for many years.

For example, the current that circles Antarctica distributes cold water throughout the globe, influencing regional currents and regional weather, while the krill that thrive under Antarctic ice shelves feed animals as large as the blue whale.

As the climate changes, Southern Ocean upwelling may increase, which could accelerate ice shelf melting, release more carbon into the atmosphere and limit the ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

By piecing together an 18 - year record of ice shelf thinning from three different sets of satellite data, the researchers found that some ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 % of their volume in the last 2 decades.

Scambos and the others hoped to use it as an experimental analogue for ice shelf breakup.

In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decadice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decadIce Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieIce Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

Their instruments are zeroed in on the Amundsen Sea Embayment, a vast region rich in volcanoes, ice shelves and glaciers, some as big as Washington state.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

Jansen and colleagues simulated likely paths that the crack could take as it spreads toward the ice shelf's edge.

As a rule of thumb, she explains, the ice tends to break where it is thinner than 200 metres; in reality, however, there are also many ice shelves that are even thinner.

As part of her doctorate research, she has developed mathematical models to calculate when and where the ice shelf may collapse.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.