Sentences with phrase «biggest ice shelf collapse»
The biggest ice shelf collapse on record was set in motion years earlier than previously thought, new research reveals.
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Scambos's group predicted the final Larsen B collapse using a model that looks at how much meltwater has pooled on the surface of the ice, and he now hopes to apply the model to bigger Antarctic ice shelves.
«It was the biggest collapse of its kind up to that point, and it served to demonstrate how ice shelves regulate the movement of ice from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean.»
Most glaciologists have assumed that temperature trends in that region are not big enough to matter in the way that they have mattered on the Antarctic Peninsula, where surface melting has led to ice shelf collapse.