Sentences with phrase «ice sheet margins»
He told the Climate News Network: «While the sparse existing observations do not indicate warmer water inflow towards the Wilkes ice sheet margin at present, there is no reason why changes similar to those in West Antarctica could not also occur here.»
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Current events surrounding increased oceanic heat around ice sheet margins in Antarctic are expected to play a dynamical role in marine terminating glacial ice loss acceleration there as well.
He told the Climate News Network: «While the sparse existing observations do not indicate warmer water inflow towards the Wilkes ice sheet margin at present, there is no reason why changes similar to those in West Antarctica could not also occur here.»
According to previous measurements and aerial photographs, the northeast Greenland ice sheet margin appeared to be stable for 25 years — until 2003.
Ice sheets — and, in particular, ocean interactions with ice sheet margins — are playing an increasingly important role and dominate uncertainty in global sea - level rise projections in the second half of this century.
Greenland is most sensitive to volcanic (sulfate) cooling during the dynamically active winter season and along the western ice sheet margin, that is, when the equator - to - pole temperature differential is strongest and owing to the ice sheet topographic and baroclinic effect of planetary wave anchoring, respectively.
The European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 mission has enhanced Antarctic ice sheet monitoring by including areas closer to the poles than earlier satellites, and by acquiring better data in moderately sloping areas, including ice sheet margins where most of the ice loss occurs.
Additionally, the Zachariae glacier at the ice sheet margin began its retreat and moved into deeper water, which exacerbated the melt, said Bevis.
A team from Rutgers University and the University of Georgia, led by Asa Rennermalm of Rutgers, measures meltwater runoff from the ice sheet margin in Greenland during summer 2013.
This leads to heavy blizzards and snowfall along the ice sheet margins.