Sentences with phrase «ice streams draining»

In 2000, Ice Stream A, the southern most of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf, flowing west to Gould Coast to the south of Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica was renamed the Mercer Ice Stream in his honor.»

Present ice streams draining the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have characteristic concave surface profiles produced when slow interior sheet flow is downdrawn by fast stream flow near ice - sheet margins.

Fast - flowing ice streams draining the WAIS (Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier in particular) into the Amundsen Sea have a grounding line on a reverse bed slope, becoming deeper inland.

Scientists fear that the large ice streams draining the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea, particularly Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, could be becoming unstable.

The Marguerite Bay drainage basin, in contrast, would have been of the order of 10,000 to 100,000 km2 during the LGM, and the ice streams draining this basin would have responded more rapidly to changes in external forcing [47].

Shabtaie, S., and C.R. Bentley, West Antarctic ice streams draining into the Ross Ice Shelf: configuration and mass balance, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.

It's one of the largest ice streams draining the West Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long and about 100 kilometres wide.

This water will rush beneath the ice towards the sea and feed into the hydrological catchment of the MacAyeal Ice Stream, one of several major ice streams draining ice from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf.

Greenland's ice streams drain the ice sheet via meltwater runoff much in the same way that water basins drain rivers, explained Bevis.

Ice streams drain ice basins, the same way the Amazon River drains the very large Amazon water basin.

The 150 - km - long ice stream drains a large part of southern Greenland.

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For hundreds of years, the Kaskawulsh Glacier formed a wall that segregates snow and ice meltwater into two streams: the Slims River, which joins with other streams and crosses Alaska before draining into the Bering Sea, and the Kaskawulsh

«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.

The new result focuses on ice loss due to a major retreat of an outlet glacier connected to a long «river» of ice — known as an ice stream — that drains ice from the interior of the ice sheet.

Zachariae is the largest ice stream in a drainage basin that covers 16 percent of the Greenland ice sheet — an area twice as large as the one drained by Jakobshavn.

The Antarctic continent is drained by numerous large ice streams.

Reedy Glacier is the main East Antarctic tributary of old ice stream A, which mostly drains West Antarctic ice, so the high moraines had to result from thicker West Antarctic ice.

Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest ice streams in Antarctica, and drains much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheice streams in Antarctica, and drains much of the West Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

It flows, together with Thwaites Ice Stream, into the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, and the two ice streams together drain ~ 5 % of the Antarctic Ice SheeIce Stream, into the Amundsen Sea embayment in West Antarctica, and the two ice streams together drain ~ 5 % of the Antarctic Ice Sheeice streams together drain ~ 5 % of the Antarctic Ice SheeIce Sheet1.

Uncoupling was most complete along liner troughs that I concluded had been occupied by ice streams, fast currents of ice that drain most of the interior ice from ice sheets past and present.

However, upon inspecting the large map of Antarctica published by the American Geographical Society in 1970, George Denton and I noticed that one - third of the remaining WAIS were drained by two large ice streams that entered Pine Island Bay, an ice - free embayment in the Amundsen Sea sector.

This is in fact increasingly observed around the edges of Greenland and Antarctica in recent years: outlet glaciers and ice streams that drain the ice sheets have greatly accelerated their flow.

These observations are also particularly relevant to the evolution of ice streams and glaciers draining West Antarctica.

Petermann Gletscher drains about 4 % of the Greenland ice sheet via a network of channels and streams that extend about 750 km landward from the grounding line (Bamber et al., 2013).

However, the northeast ice stream, which drains 16 % of the ice sheet, was not thought to contribute.