Sentences with phrase «huge ice masses»

While this is unlikely for the foreseeable future, even a partial loss of these huge ice masses could have a significant effect on coastal areas.

It is a process that occurs all the year around, but more frequently in summer than in winter, a process, moreover, that sets adrift thousands of huge ice masses during the course of a year.

Not exact matches

It begins with huge masses of ice floating in water on Mars.

Ice shelfs are huge masses, exposed to tensions due to the rotation of the earth.

The Arctic ice mass is melting, as are most of the world's glaciers upon which huge populations depend for their water supply.

8) Accelerated mass loss in Greenland and / or Antarctica, perhaps with another huge ice shelf breaking off, but in any case coupled with another measurable rise in the rate of sea level rise, 9) The Fifth Assessment Report (2012 - 2013) really spelling out what we face with no punches pulled.

Thus, whatever the contribution of mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet to the huge (4 - 8 m) rise in sea level of the Eemian, it occurred under very strong temperature forcing.

The huge mass of arctic ice has been responding to the mexican wave since we started watching just after PDO flipped in 1975.

The biggest difference is that the Arctic sea ice forms in a huge ocean surrounded by the northern hemisphere land masses, while the Antarctic sea ice forms as a fringe around a vast frozen continent.

1977: ROSS ICE SHELF, Antarctica - A huge portion of the Antarctic ice mass appears to be collapsing into the sea, a catastrophe that could raise the levels of the oceans by almost 20 feet.

In the case of climate change, we have huge masses of evidence — literally, in the case of the disappearing Arctic sea ice and the collapsing Antarctic ice shelf.

«These (ice sheets) are huge masses that exert an attraction on the ocean,» Larour said.