Sentences with phrase «ice shelves experienced»
Researchers had assumed, for example, that even if the peninsula's ice shelves experienced brutal summers, the winters would still nourish them with new snow.
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The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.
Time - lapse visualizations of temperature, precipitation, receding sea ice, and collapsing ice shelves create a vivid experience of the natural pulses of the planet and the shifts brought on by climate change.
Floating shelves of ice on the Antarctic Peninsula are experiencing temperatures and melt rates that they can no longer withstand.
In recent years, ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula and along the northern coast of Canada have experienced rapid disintegration.