Sentences with phrase «ice tongue»

In southeast Greenland for example, two large glaciers named Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq lost parts of their floating ice tongues in 2003, and underwent a rapid acceleration to approximately three times their earlier speed.

Whether there is a direct link between the deep convection and the Odden Ice Tongue is a question of great interest and study.

When I kissed cool as ice My tongue got stuck nice She got into hot water I had to keep my cool Her mother objected I got rejected To hold my peace You know the saying... A picture is worth a thousand words.

In West Antarctica, we concentrated our measurements on the Pine Island / Thwaites glaciers and their associated ice tongues, as these are the fastest changing glaciers in Antarctica.

However, it is often overlooked that the major ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas and the many smaller shelves and ice tongues buttressing outlet glaciers are also vulnerable to atmospheric warming.»

Lucchitta, B.K., Mullins, K.F., Smith, C.E., and Ferrigno, J.G., 1994, Velocities of the Smith Glacier Ice Tongue and Dotson Ice Shelf, Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Annals of Glaciology, v. 20, p. 101 - 109.

In discussing their findings, Fountain et al. report that «no significant spatial or temporal patterns of terminus position, flow speed, or calving emerged, implying that the conditions associated with ice tongue stability are unchanged,» at least over the past six decades.

That's because the «Luxembourg» iceberg came from a glacial ice tongue that had just been «sitting there,» said oceanographer Doug Martinson of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

«Knowing the ridge is there lets us understand why the wide ice tongue that used to be in front of the glacier has broken up,» Robin said.

Based on sea ice age calculations, much of this sea ice tongue remained in the Arctic Ocean basin to become second - year sea ice (as discussed on the NSIDC web site by Fowler and Maslanik; and by Ignatius Rigor as Figure 8 below).

The obstacles to get to the ice shelf were extreme, but the science goal was simple: to measure how fast the sea was melting the 37 - mile long ice tongue from underneath by drilling through the ice shelf.

Its extensive ice tongue makes it particularly susceptible to basal melt processes, due to the area and duration of exposure of the glacier base.

Though the formation of the 700 square - kilometer iceberg could be a purely natural event — the result of a floating ice tongue growing too long and losing its balance on the sea — some scientists suspect that changes in Pine Island Glacier are due to changing conditions below.

Re: 64 — the Odden ice tongue I can not exactly tell from the picture in the link but it appears that the Odden ice hook forms north of the West Jan Mayen Ridge and Jan Mayen Island?

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

In Greenland, where the glaciers empty onto narrow fjords, the ice shelves, also known as ice tongues, are far less extensive.

In our flights, because of the difference in gravitational attraction associated with the presence of water instead of rock beneath the ice tongue, our airborne gravimeter was sufficiently sensitive to duplicate the Autosub measurements and to determine the shape of the cavity beyond the ridge.

This ice tongue measures approximately 60 km in length and 40 km in width, and serves to buttress the glacier.

Our most unusual experiment in this region was a two - day series of flying a low - level 5 by 10 km grid over the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) ice tongue.

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

However, for much of Greenland and Antarctica, ice flow terminates at the ocean, as a tidewater glacier (not fully afloat) or an ice tongue or ice shelf (fully floating thick permanent ice above the ocean).

In some cases the ice tongues can turn back towards the main ice pack and vessels near the ice edge can be trapped.

The glacier was renowned for an exposed ice tongue poking 40 kilometres out from the Antarctic continent but in early 2010 a 97 - kilometre long iceberg smashed into Mertz, resulting in the calving of a massive chunk of the ice tongue.

Instead, the glacier develops a floating ice tongue - a shelf of ice that extends from the main body of the glacier out onto the waters of the fjord.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

In an Envisat radar image taken on 3 August, the ice tongue was still intact but, on 4 August, a large part of the floating ice tongue was separated from the glacier, giving birth to what was the largest iceberg in the northern hemisphere at that time.