Sentences with phrase «for ice breakups»

Although they never knew exactly when it would happen, they had come to expect and prepare for ice breakups, which have become more common in recent years.

Not exact matches

The full effects of ice shelf breakup on glacier demise will not be known for some time.

Scambos and the others hoped to use it as an experimental analogue for ice shelf breakup.

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming.»

An additional new feature is the increasingly visible fast dynamic response of ice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeIce Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice sheets.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming» said Lenaerts.

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Arriving in New York City following a nasty breakup, Slevin gets mugged while he's practically still on the airport tarmac; shortly thereafter, this hapless (and newly walletless) innocent winds up being mistaken for the deadbeat pal in whose apartment he's crashing, targeted by not one but two ice - cold criminal kingpins — archrivals, no less, who've spent the last two decades malevolently eyeing each other from matching penthouse suites situated just a few blocks apart.

While filming in the Arctic for his documentary, «Chasing Ice», filmmaker James Balog captured the breakup of the Ilulissat...

Breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abBreakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraIce Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraIce Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abbreakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstract)

While the breakup and slipping of ice sheets is a small part of sea rise now, he wrote last year, it could easily accelerate under the heating from a «business as usual» path for emissions.

With this unofficial time, this year places 4th earliest for the breakup of ice in the Tanana river.

Throw in the possibility (weighted, perhaps) of ice sheet breakups in greenland and antarctica, and how do our «Scenarios A B and C» look for the FUTURE now?

The same is true for ice melting: All glaciers of Greenland are receding, but the breakup point of the largest tidal glacier (near Illulisat) moved faster inland in the 1930 - 1940 period than today.

# 146: my understanding is that ice shelf breakup does contribute to eustatic sea - level rise, as you say, but only a little, and less so for larger ice shelves (the anchoring is more distant).

We are now (27 March 2011) within the time frame of my March 02, 2011 predition for the breakup of the Nares Strait ice bridge.

All of which indicates 2017 won't be an early sea ice breakup year for WHB polar bears.

Unlike 2007, which had a strong unusual wind pattern during all the summer months that contributed to major sea ice loss, summer 2012 meteorology was generally unremarkable, except for a strong storm in early August that contributed to sea ice breakup.

Second is the meteorological proxy record for temperature as indicated by the ice breakup.

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Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

Breakup for Western Hudson Bay (WHB) is looking to be later than usual this year, given that the average breakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alonBreakup for Western Hudson Bay (WHB) is looking to be later than usual this year, given that the average breakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alonbreakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alone 30 %.

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.

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