Sentences with phrase «ice shelf breakup on»

«Even though we don't see immediate evidence of ice shelf breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expected.

The full effects of ice shelf breakup on glacier demise will not be known for some time.

Not exact matches

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming.»

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming» said Lenaerts.

This flow of ice, fed by the continuous formation of new ice on land and culminating in the breakup of the shelves on the outer fringe and the calving of icebergs, is not new.

Beyond the present danger, scientists warn that — unless the issue of climate change is addressed — we could see the breakup of larger ice shelves, which could have a destabilizing effect on the entire region and possibly the world.

The strong warming of the Antarctic Peninsula has led to the breakup of large ice shelves whose presence tended to impede the oceanward flow of mountain glaciers on the peninsula.

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.