Sentences with phrase «ice shelf collapse like»

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All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

That makes it vulnerable to collapse, because seawater can flow in underneath it and transform its edge into a floating ice shelf like Larsen B, which might then break up, freeing the ice behind it.

The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest warming locations in the world and, according to the European Space Agency, the enormous Wilkins Ice Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years baIce Shelf is in imminent danger of collapse, much like the Larsen ice shelf fragmented a few years baice shelf fragmented a few years back.

For example, something like a major release of methane from clathrates, collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf, etc..

There is evidence for one ice shelf that a collapse like that observed in the 1990s has not occurred since at least the mid-Holocene, but comparable evidence is lacking elsewhere.

«This has already occurred in places like the Antarctic Peninsula, where we've observed warming and abrupt ice shelf collapses in the last few decades.

The regional climate change now occurring in West Antarctica is a pressing concern as collapsing ice shelves, like those on the Antarctic Peninsula, could lead to a larger rise of several tens of centimeters in this century [IPCC, 2013].

Eventually these slabs topple like dominos, and the ice shelves collapse in spectacular fashion.

[Response: You are confusing a normal and periodic calving event with the total collapse of an ice shelf — kind of like the difference between a haircut and decapitation.