Sentences with phrase «ice sheet behavior»

GPS and seismic measurements together provide a means to answer critical questions about ice sheet behavior in a warming world.

Since that report was released, scientists have worked hard to improve their understanding of ice sheet behavior and improve estimates of future sea level rise.

It is important to note that our estimates involve a particular set of assumptions about likely ice sheet behavior.

Forecasts of future ice sheet behavior appear even more uncertain: Under the same high — global warming scenario, eight ice sheet models predicted anywhere between 0 and 27 cm of sea level rise in 2100 from Greenland melt.

«One of the most powerful tools we have for observing ice sheet behavior and evolution is satellite remote sensing,» Schroeder said.

«These are two of the largest and most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, so the potential for their evolution to influence each other is important to consider in modeling ice sheet behavior and projecting future sea level rise,» Dustin Schroeder, a Stanford geophysicist who led the study, told Earther.

The question now, experts said, is what the discovery of the bottoms - up ice formation means for efforts to understand ice sheet behavior and to investigate past climate by extracting ice cores.

For example, some exciting work being done by David Pollard and Rob DeConto suggests that processes such as ice - cliff collapse and ice - shelf hydrofracturing may play important roles in future ice sheet behavior that have not been well incorporated into most ice sheet models.

A similar underestimate of ice sheet behavior would have dire consequences for our cities.

«The novel aspect of our study is that we discover biological processes play an important role in ice sheet behavior,» Stibal said.