Sentences with phrase «continental ice mass»

Alternative explanations are available, for example that climatic changes are responsible for changes in continental ice mass that affect volcanic activity.

The NASA icesat & glaciology study that showed Antarctic continental ice mass increasing with declining snow fall for decades, and melt area limited to ~ 2 % of coastal Antarctica.

When ice shelves already largely in the water break off from the continental ice mass, this does not have much direct effect on sea level per se.

The surface (including the continental ice masses) can only absorb heat slowly because it is a poor heat conductor.

Not exact matches

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

Ice shelves are floating masses of ice on the edge of the continental ice sheIce shelves are floating masses of ice on the edge of the continental ice sheice on the edge of the continental ice sheice sheet.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

You comment has piqued my interest, for I have long wondered how a good closure of sea ice to a continental land mass can impact things, witness Actic NE Asia this year.

We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.

As Earth became colder and continental ice sheets grew, further increase of δ18O was due in equal parts to deep ocean temperature change and ice mass change.

Loss of the Antarctic ice shelves, which extend from the southern polar land mass over the underwater continental shelf, are likely to result in the glaciers behind them flowing more rapidly into [continue reading...]

1) Latent heat of fusion (melting ice) there is more total sea ice in the world at the moment [know it is not all the ice] 2) Dry continental land masses -LSB-?]

The candidates are: 1) Latent heat of fusion (melting ice) 2) Dry continental land masses 3) The oceans Not knowing anything else but basic first physical principles and having general knowledge about the composition of the system, the most plausible largest heat sink in the system is (3).

During an interval when sea level is forced upward from a major low stand by a Milankovitch response acting either alone or in combination with an internally driven, higher - frequency process, ice sheets grounded on continental shelves become unstable, mass wasting accelerates, and the resulting deglaciation sets the phase of one wave in the train of 100,000 - year oscillations.