Sentences with phrase «ice streams such»

Ice shelf collapse and glacier recession here, in front of the large ice streams such as Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, would have potential to raise sea levels by tens of centimetres to a metre, through the process of marine ice sheet instability23.

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The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

Dubbed IceCube, this novel project built in the Antarctic ice will map cosmic neutrinos, nearly massless particles with no electric charge that stream from such mysterious entities as black holes, dark matter, and exploding stars.

As a result of such extensive sea ice melt, says the study, the jet stream, which has always been rather capricious, is behaving differently now.

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«Mid-latitude economies such as those in Europe and the United States could be threatened, for example, by a suggested link between sea - ice retreat and the strength and position of the jet stream, bringing extreme winter and spring weather,» the paper states.

In addition, rivers that were experiencing larger stream flows were usually in little - populated areas, such as the Arctic where melting ice is inundating river systems.

Thus there is a back and forth in global cloudiness as the Sun's activity level changes over the decades and centuries — such as during the period covering the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and the current warm period — through latitudinal shifting of the jet stream tracks and permanent climate zones.

As a result of such extensive sea ice melt, says the study, the jet stream, which has always been rather capricious, is behaving differently now.

http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/iceshelves.html ``... Ice streams and glaciers constantly push on ice shelves, but the shelves eventually come up against coastal features such as islands and peninsulas, building pressure that slows their movement into the oceIce streams and glaciers constantly push on ice shelves, but the shelves eventually come up against coastal features such as islands and peninsulas, building pressure that slows their movement into the oceice shelves, but the shelves eventually come up against coastal features such as islands and peninsulas, building pressure that slows their movement into the ocean.