Sentences with phrase «as hydrofracturing»

What if someone decided to include processes such as hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure in these objective models?

These approaches, however, haven't taken into account some physical processes that can quickly increase ice sheet discharge, such as the collapse of terminal ice cliffs and the breakup of floating ice shelves caused by a process known as hydrofracturing.

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For example, some exciting work being done by David Pollard and Rob DeConto suggests that processes such as ice - cliff collapse and ice - shelf hydrofracturing may play important roles in future ice sheet behavior that have not been well incorporated into most ice sheet models.

More recent research, however, suggests that collapse could happen sooner; processes such as ice cliff failure and hydrofracture, omitted from most ice - flow models, might initiate a collapse of the Thwaites Glacier within a few decades (DeConto and Pollard 2016, Scambos et al. 2017).

There are a number of economically sound State energy policies, such as North Dakota's development regime and California's Senate Bill (SB) 4 (hydrofracturing regulations) and others.