Sentences with phrase «entire sheet of ice»

Sometimes the entire sheet of ice below the camp can jerk and lurch.

There'd be a slight variation because the rock would move side to side, but in the standard curling shot, you'd have two or three full rotations of the rock going down the entire sheet of the ice and we did study that motion.

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In effect, this UAV survey across the ablation zone of the ice sheet perfectly bridges the gap between people on the ground studying what's under their feet in just one part of the ice sheet, and the satellite data that shows what's going on across the entire ice sheet.

The drought that is devastating California and much of the West has dried the region so much that 240 gigatons worth of surface and groundwater have been lost, roughly the equivalent to a 3.9 - inch layer of water over the entire West, or the annual loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study.

These two glaciers have been described as the «weak underbelly» of the ice sheet because surges in the ice flow there could theoretically cause the rapid disintegration of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet.

What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

A more recent study based on satellite measurements of gravity over the entire continent suggests that while the ice sheets in the interior of Antarctica are growing thicker, even more ice is being lost from the peripheries.

The unstoppable retreat is the likely start of a long - feared domino effect that could cause the entire ice sheet to melt, whether or not greenhouse gas emissions decline.

And on July 11 - 12 last year, gusts of warm air caused melting on virtually the entire surface of the ice sheet.

The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) has been melting so slowly and so negligibly in recent decades that the entire ice sheet's total contribution to global sea level rise was a mere 0.39 of a centimeter (0.17 to 0.61 cm) between 1993 and 2010 (Leeson et al, 2017).

Thus the entire 3 — 4 meters of global sea level contained in that ice sheet may be vulnerable to rapid disintegration, although arguments for stability of even this marine ice sheet have been made [94].

Groove marks scoured in bedrock by this ice sheet now hold one fifth of the entire planets fresh lake water in the Great Lakes of the northeastern United States.

So unless the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet is the exact same thickness as the entire ice sheet (say 3 km on average), an area loss there, of 15 %, will produce a much smaller % volume loss, than say if this area loss were smack dab in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.

This gradual removal of CO2 from the atmosphere reduces the overall greenhouse effect and thus slowly draws the entire planet into an ice age, driving further ice sheet expansion over tens of thousands of years (a complete ice age cycle is around 100,000 years)

The authors of the study — Ricarda Winkelmann and Anders Levermann from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Andy Ridgwell of the University of Bristol — find that the loss of the entire Antarctic ice sheet would take millenniums, but up to 100 feet of sea level rise could result within 1,000 years, with the rate of the rise beginning to increase a century or two from now.

Shepherd et al. (2012) estimate the mass balance of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet to be -81 ± 37 gigatonnes per year.

The satellites measure changes in gravity to determine mass variations of the entire Antarctic ice sheet.

The GRACE data offers a complete picture of the entire ice sheet, allowing comparisons of mass changes in coastal regions (eg - elevations below 2000 metres) with the Greenland interior (above 2000 metres).

It suggests that current ice sheet modeling studies are too simplistic to accurately predict the future contributions of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level rise, and that Greenland may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thougice sheet modeling studies are too simplistic to accurately predict the future contributions of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level rise, and that Greenland may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thosheet modeling studies are too simplistic to accurately predict the future contributions of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level rise, and that Greenland may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thougIce Sheet to sea level rise, and that Greenland may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thoSheet to sea level rise, and that Greenland may lose ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thougice more rapidly in the near future than previously thought.

Were Greenland's entire ice sheet to melt, global sea level could rise by a startling 7 meters (23 feet), inundating most of the world's coastal cities.

Mercer (1968, 1978) proposed that atmospheric warming could cause the ice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice shelves of western Antarctica to disintegrate and that as a consequence the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrIce Sheet (10 % of the antarctic ice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metrice volume) would lose its land connection and come afloat, causing a sea level rise of about five metres.

Second, the complete collapse of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not guaranteed, but it is quite plausible.

Computer models suggest that just small amounts of melting in the coming decades could destabilize the entire ice sheet on the western part of the frozen continent, researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany say in a new study.

The focus of their concern is two vulnerable glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region — the Thwaites and the Pine Island glaciers — where destabilization could trigger a collapse of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet and trigger resulting catastrophic sea level rises.

In theGuardian, Suzanne Goldenberg, wrote: «The Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate this month than at any other time in recorded history, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of thaw.»

The summer of 2012 brought Greenland far more extensive melt than anything observed in the satellite record: in July 2012, surface melt extended over nearly the entire ice sheet.

An estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface melted on July 11 and 12, 2012, and virtually the entire ice sheet surface melted at some point in July 2012.

The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) has been melting so slowly and so negligibly in recent decades that the entire ice sheet's total contribution to global sea level rise was a mere 0.39 of a centimeter (0.17 to 0.61 cm) between 1993 and 2010 (Leeson et al, 2017).

At all points of the compass, the entire outer edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet is flooding into the oceans with increasing velocity.

If all of Totten were to melt, it would be enough to raise seas by around 11 to 13 feet — or about as much as if half of the entire Greenland Ice Sheet went down.

The Sierra Nevada's mountain peaks have risen measurably since 2012 as the Earth's crust rebounds from the net loss of 63 trillion gallons of water — an amount equivalent to the entire annual ice melt of the Greenland Ice Sheice melt of the Greenland Ice SheIce Sheet.

Shfaqat Khan from the Technical University of Denmark and colleagues used more than 30 years of surface elevation measurements of the entire ice sheet to discover that overall loss is accelerating.

New views from satellites, plus vigorous programs of precise measurements from airplanes and on the ground, showed that enormous glaciers could quickly change their speed of travel, while entire ice sheets could break up within a matter of months.

However, a climate warm enough to lose the entire Antarctic ice sheet would have a long - term sensitivity of close to 6 °C.

First, as was widely reported back in 2006 — and thus well known to Lomborg while writing Cool It — the first - ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet by NASA and German scientists using a satellite launched in 2002 found «Antarctica's ice sheet decreased by 152 (plus or minus 80) cubic kilometers of ice annually between April 2002 and August 2005.»

We refer to both the one - dimensional ice sheet modelling of de Boer et al. [46], which was used to calculate sea level for the entire Cenozoic era, and the three - dimensional ice sheet model of Bintanja et al. [59], which was used for simulations of the past million years.

Researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine note that these glaciers already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice SheIce Sheet.

VP — since you are into a «catastrophic» event, like a sheet of ice «slipping and sliding into the ocean, happening in Antarctica, suppose that the entire Ross Ice Shelf broke off suddenice «slipping and sliding into the ocean, happening in Antarctica, suppose that the entire Ross Ice Shelf broke off suddenIce Shelf broke off suddenly.

The melt of virtually the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet the other year is worrying.

Gore says the entire Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could melt rapidly; the film then jumps to animation of Manhattan flooded.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center In the first direct, comprehensive mass survey of the entire Greenland ice sheet, scientists using data from the NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) have measured a significant decrease in the mass of the Greenland ice cap.

The entire Wilkes Basin would change from ice sheet to ice shelf, bringing along that 3 - 4 metres of global sea level rise.

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The guys at NASA and the JPL proved this years ago: March 2, 2006 RELEASE: 06 - 085 NASA Mission Detects Significant Antarctic Ice Mass Loss Scientists were able to conduct the first - ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet using data from the joint NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACIce Mass Loss Scientists were able to conduct the first - ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet using data from the joint NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACice sheet using data from the joint NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

And the calving of huge icebergs fuels researchers» fear that, within 100 years, the entire West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, with disastrous consequences for many coastal cities worldwide.

This summer, in fact, virtually the entire surface veneer of the Greenland ice sheet melted in a matter of days, something that Ohio State researcher Jason Box, who worked on the CALIPSO research, says could start happening every summer.