Sentences with phrase «changing ice streams»

West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the continent's fastest - changing ice streams, looks to be recreating 8,000 - year - old history as it shrinks and thins, a new study suggests.

West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the continent's fastest - changing ice streams, looks to be recreating 8,000 - year - old history as it shrinks and thins, a new study suggests.

Not exact matches

The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

Scientists discover an important clue in predicting future consequences of climate change: the mechanism that moves ice streams

The ongoing disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic from elevated temperatures is a factor to changes in atmospheric pressure that control jet streams of air, explained James Overland, an oceanographer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.

Dr Screen said: «The results of the computer model suggest that melting Arctic sea ice causes a change in the position of the jet stream and this could help to explain the recent wet summers we have seen.

Those changes may include the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and changes in the jet stream and the pattern of El Niño and La Niña weather cycles.

Virtually ice - free summers in the arctic sea could well arrive by 2030, with troubling implications for accelerated albedo feedback and possibly disruptive changes in the jet stream.

Changes in the margin of ice stream C, Antarctica.

Changes in the configuration of ice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101 (B3), p. 5499 - 55ice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101 (B3), p. 5499 - 55Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101 (B3), p. 5499 - 5504.

The Marguerite Bay drainage basin, in contrast, would have been of the order of 10,000 to 100,000 km2 during the LGM, and the ice streams draining this basin would have responded more rapidly to changes in external forcing [47].

Changes in the configuration of ice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

Changes in the configuration of ice stream flow from the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Even under the same changes in environmental conditions and external forcings, ice streams will retreat at individual rates.

However, scientists have several ingenious ways in which they can observe changes to this fragile, important ice stream.

They state that these changes are a possible sign of a progressive collapse of these ice streams, in response to the high melting of their buttressing ice shelves.

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Could we be looking at any fairly abrupt changes to the jet stream, possibly triggered by sea ice melting or stratospheric changes?

... indicates that glacial sediment sources were different from modern ones, which could reflect changes in the catchment areas of the glaciers and ice streams.

This illustrates two things, that PIG flow regime has not changed much for quite awhile and two that all the action from topography and changing basal conditions is happening lower in the ice stream.

«Changes in West Antarctic ice stream dynamics observed with ALOS PALSAR data».

«If loss of sea ice is driving changes in the jet stream, the jet stream is changing Greenland, and this, in turn, has an impact on the Arctic system as well as the climate.

I think there is evidence that AGW has caused the decline in arctic sea ice, which may be responsible for the changes seen in the paths of the jet stream, which may be responsible for the blocking high over Greenland which was responsible for Sandy's left turn.

You say that there is evidence that AGW has caused the decline in arctic sea ice, which may be responsible for the changes seen in the paths of the jet stream, which may be responsible for the blocking high over Greenland which was responsible for Sandy's left turn.

And science is emerging suggesting a link between the melting of Arctic sea ice on one hand and faster warming in the region and changes to the northern hemisphere jet stream on the other, explaining why some weather systems appear to get «stuck in place» — to often - devastating effect.

Francis, who wasn't involved with either study, is one of the main proponents of an idea that by altering how much heat the ocean lets out, sea ice melt and Arctic warming can also change atmospheric circulation patterns, in particular by making the jet stream form larger peaks, or highs, and troughs, or lows.

There have been many primarily anthropogenic changes in the past, but the major jet stream changes caused by the retreat of the North American Ice Shield seems to be much more determinative for Holocene changes in Saharan rainfall.

Neither the slowdown in the Ross ice streams nor the speed - up of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers results from climate changes, at least not recent ones.

A number of climate scientists are currently investigating the possible link between abnormal jet streams and the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice, which if true would mean climate change may not only be exacerbating heatwaves but cold spells as well.

While the ice build up is likely slow due to decreasing temps, the eventual increasing temperature begins to melt massive ice dams slowly at first with little change down stream.

During this year alone studies have warned that climate change could result in the demise of coral reefs, the shutdown of the Gulf stream and related currents, melting Arctic ice and glaciers, emerging diseases, bitter winters and drought, changes in vegetation, stronger storms and hurricanes, and mass extinction.

Diminishing sea ice has been playing a leading role in this, and the resulting smaller gradient has already caused the streams to change their speeds and typical paths.

Now the Danish - led team has examined changes linked to the 600 kilometre - long Zachariae ice stream in the north - east.

-- The record melt of the Greenland ice sheet was facilitated by changes in the jet stream... — http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112875668/jet-stream-caused-greenland-ice-sheet-melt-2012-061713/ «According to University of Sheffield research, published in the International Journal of Climatology, unusual Jet Stream changes were behind record surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet last summer.&raqice sheet was facilitated by changes in the jet stream... — http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112875668/jet-stream-caused-greenland-ice-sheet-melt-2012-061713/ «According to University of Sheffield research, published in the International Journal of Climatology, unusual Jet Stream changes were behind record surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet last summer.&raqice-sheet-melt-2012-061713/ «According to University of Sheffield research, published in the International Journal of Climatology, unusual Jet Stream changes were behind record surface melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet last summer.&raqIce Sheet last summer.»

Thus there is a back and forth in global cloudiness as the Sun's activity level changes over the decades and centuries — such as during the period covering the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and the current warm period — through latitudinal shifting of the jet stream tracks and permanent climate zones.

It finds that the disappearance of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean could change the circulation of the Pacific Ocean, encouraging the jet stream to veer north.

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While climate change does not affect Earth's tilt, it does have potential implications for many of the other factors that influence winter weather in the US, including Arctic sea ice, the polar jet stream, the polar vortex, and El Niño.

One is that the evidence for change in the expected direction if climate change was having an effect — that is, changes in physical (ice sheets, stream flow, coastal erosion etc.) and biological systems (timing of breeding events, shifting species ranges, population declines etc.)-- is overwhelming.