Sentences with phrase «ice sheet stability»

Or we could talk some more about ice sheet stability.

The 2001 IPCC report described large uncertainties in ice sheet stability; the 2007 report may describe fewer.

The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project was an integrative study of ice sheet stability and subglacial geobiology in West Antarctica, funded in 2009 by the Antarctic Integrated System Science Program of National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Division.

Working together we can make seismic and GPS measurements that are needed for understanding key issues about Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet stability.

However, the ice shelves around Antarctica are extremely important for ice sheet stability, because they hold back the land ice.

«Emerging science regarding Antarctic ice sheet stability suggests that, for high emission scenarios, a GMSL [global mean sea level] rise exceeding 8 feet (2.4 m) by 2100 is physically possible, although the probability of such an extreme outcome can not currently be assessed,» the report says.

Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys, in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged in the 1970's.

i would much rather discuss and learn about cloud models, ocean circulation, ice sheet stability than repeatedly counter ignorant arguments by innumerate dunces.