Sentences with phrase «ice sheets retreated at»

Twelve thousand years ago, the great ice sheets retreated at the beginning of the latest interglacial — the Flandrian — allowing humans to return to northern latitudes.

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Additionally, the Zachariae glacier at the ice sheet margin began its retreat and moved into deeper water, which exacerbated the melt, said Bevis.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieIce Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabIce Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

According to the team's data, ice advanced from the Aurora Basin and retreated back again at least 11 times during the first 20 million years of the ice sheet's history.

Marine geologist Karin Andreassen at CAGE, the study's lead author, says the data could hold lessons for retreating ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, although her team could not determine how much methane actually escaped into the atmosphere from blowouts in the distant past.

«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»

The scientific community is now debating whether irreversible retreat has already started at some glaciers draining the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Polar amplification, in which temperatures at the poles rise more rapidly than temperatures at the equator (due to factors like the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation of heat from the equator to the poles), plays a major role in the rate of ice sheet retreat.

Especially in West Antarctica, where much of the ice sheet sits below sea level, complex interactions at the edge of the ice sheet can sensitively affect the rate of ice - sheet retreat.

There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect (see the notes above on the role of weathering).

Again about WAIS collapse Here at this mark 35 mins in R. Alley explains why Ice Sheet retreat is based on thresholds (local topography).

Polar amplification, in which temperatures at the poles rise more rapidly than temperatures at the equator (due to factors like the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation of heat from the equator to the poles), plays a major role in the rate of ice sheet retreat.

The retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last ice age represents a dramatic sequence of environmental change that is evident in geological records across North AmeriIce Sheet at the end of the last ice age represents a dramatic sequence of environmental change that is evident in geological records across North Ameriice age represents a dramatic sequence of environmental change that is evident in geological records across North America.

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If one looks at the full glacial record, every retreat and collapse of ice sheets are preceded by ever increasing dust accumulations.

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored a study appearing last year in Science on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier.

The ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen relatively fast - moving glaciers that have recently become thinner, significantly increased their rates of retreat, and broken up at the ocean end (the terminus).

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

The Arctic ice sheet is thinning, and most of the planet's glaciers are retreating as climates warm, so the Jakobshavn glacier is carrying less ice, at a faster rate, over shorter distances than ever before, and by the end of the century could have shifted 50 kilometres upstream.

What is significant about this paper is that GHG forcing that is supposedly causing exponential, run - away warming, collapse of the polar ice sheets, retreat of the worlds glaciers, etc since around 1960 is not visible at all in the sea level record.

Donald D. Blankenship, a senior researcher at UT's Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and one of the authors of the study, explained that understanding the evolution of the ice sheet over the East Antarctic landscape as well as its points of vulnerabilities for rapid retreat allows them to predict what could potentially happen to the region in the coming years.

Especially in West Antarctica, where much of the ice sheet sits below sea level, complex interactions at the edge of the ice sheet can sensitively affect the rate of ice - sheet retreat.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

«Since most ice sheet erosion occurs at the margin of the ice sheet, that indicated times when the ice sheet retreated,» Cook said.

At eight of the ice sheet's 65 biggest glaciers, the speed of retreat was more than five times the rate of deglaciation since the last ice age.