Sentences with phrase «ice stream response»
The PIG is not dominated by its ice shelf, hence the potential for rapid ice stream response.
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«That's the total holy grail right now, to see if we can pin down the response of the ice stream to lakes» filling and draining,» says Helen Fricker of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.
Actively surging West Antarctic ice streams and their response characteristics, Annals of Glaciology, Vol.
An additional new feature is the increasingly visible fast dynamic response of ice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeIce Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice sheets.
They state that these changes are a possible sign of a progressive collapse of these ice streams, in response to the high melting of their buttressing ice shelves.
The jet stream pattern — particularly the strongly negative NAO [North Atlantic Oscillation] and associated blocking — that has been in place for the last 2 weeks and is projected to be with us into next week is exactly the sort of highly amplified (i.e., wavy) pattern that I'd expect to see more of in response to ice loss and enhanced Arctic warming.
The authors first simulated flow in the ice sheet's streams and shelves in response to various fossil fuel emission scenarios after the year 2010.
A process of dynamic glacial thinning also seems to occur, running back - stream up the glacier, in response to the initial shock of the ice - shelf loss.