Sentences with phrase «ice shelves hold»

The AMIGOS on Flask and Leppard will show how the glaciers speed up as the ice shelf holding them back collapses.

So, if Larsen C ultimately breaks up, researchers are concerned that could be a sign that other ice shelves holding back a large amount of land ice could cause oceans to rise.

Not exact matches

Although Tyler's team pulled its instruments out of the borehole in January 2013, the mooring that held the cable in place remains frozen into the ice shelf, he says — and the team hopes they can get back to it for a longer term monitoring project.

What matters for sea - level rise is the addition of ice from land into the ocean, however it's the ice shelves that hold off the flow of grounded ice toward the ocean.

But the rift itself — how fast that cut through and what held it up — is teaching us a lot about ice shelves.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

Warm currents can melt the floating ice shelves that hold back ice on land.

Melting of ice shelves does not directly contribute to sea - level rise, but instead they hold back water frozen in the larger ice sheet that will cause sea levels to rise.

The ice shelves that fringe the land - based ice hold back the flow of inland ice to the ocean.

After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5 - meter sea - level rise equivalent, entered a phase of accelerated retreat in fall 2012.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

These ice shelves are responsible for stabilizing the glacier and hold back the flood of ice behind them.

Antarctica's ice shelves act as doorstops that hold back glaciers and the continent's vast stores of land ice.

Without the ice shelf to hold them back, says Pettit, these glaciers have sped up.

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

The Larsen C ice shelf is 217 miles thick and sits at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers feeding into it.

Stacked long white floating shelves hold wine glasses above white shaker drawers fitted with long brass pulls and a white quartz countertop accented with a salmon pink ice bucket and a potted cactus.

Apparently the floating ice shelf that held it back could break up with surprising ease, and the whole mass might begin sliding forward.

Many glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are held - back by ice - shelves that have frozen across parts of the coast.

Ice shelves act hold back glaciers from the sea and keep warmer marine air at a distance from the glaciers.

New research, which includes using data from satellites such as ESA's heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where these shelves act as a safety band, holding back the ice that flows towards the sea.

Warmer air and ocean temperatures have caused the glacier to detach from a stabilizing sill and retreat rapidly along a downward - sloping, marine - based bed... After 8 years of decay of its ice shelf, Zachariæ Isstrøm, a major glacier of northeast Greenland that holds a 0.5 - meter sea - level rise equivalent, entered a phase of accelerated retreat in fall 2012.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

Where a glacier meets the sea, an ice shelf can hold it back.

When ice shelves lose mass, they lose the ability to hold back inland glaciers from their march to the sea, meaning those glaciers can accelerate and thin as a result of the acceleration.

New research, using ice velocity data from satellites such as ESA's heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where these shelves act as a safety band, holding back the ice that flows t...

The flow of glaciers held behind the ice shelf accelerated.

It holds at least 30 cans, which is plenty of space for dorm - room eating habits, and it even has a tiny freezer shelf for a small ice cube tray.

I find that the in - door ice dispenser has been great for not taking away much - needed fridge space and the tiny shelves that go on that door are PERFECT for holding juice boxes and ketchup bottles.