Sentences with phrase «iceberg calving»

Michael Zehse spies a company selling water from icebergs calved from Norwegian glaciers.

«The traditional view on Antarctic mass loss is it is almost entirely controlled by iceberg calving,» said Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University of California, Irvine.

«There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,» says Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine.

«If an ice shelf loses contact with the ice rise, either through sustained thinning or a large iceberg calving event, it can prompt a significant acceleration in ice speed, and possibly further destabilisation.

A new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier — one of the main outlets where ice from the interior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study by UC Irvine and others has found.

Scientists captured a dramatic submarine iceberg calving at the grounded end of the Columbia Glacier on June 17, 2005.

In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progress.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

When certain thresholds are passed, catastrophic ice shelf disintegration through iceberg calving is initiated.

(They are using radar and seismic sensors over several years to gain a more precise understanding of the physics of iceberg calving where such ice streams meet the sea.)

Retreating tidewater glaciers dominate the Alaskan sea level contribution due to their ability to efficiently transfer mass via iceberg calving [Arendt et al., 2002].

WIDENING GULF A Delaware - sized iceberg calved when a crack in the Larsen C ice shelf reached the Weddell Sea this year.

There is a lot of evidence that ice - ocean interaction is causing fractures where you see icebergs calving.

Some of the variables controlling the models are not all that well known,» he adds, including forces such as winds, ocean circulation, and how icebergs calve.

When that Antarctic iceberg calved, scientists mobilized quickly to learn as much as possible about the remaining ice.

So far, scientists have been limited to checking in on what's happened to the ice shelf and the 2,240 - square - mile iceberg it calved by satellite.

Where to Stop: Ramshackle Copper Center for sourdough pancakes; Columbia Glacier to watch icebergs calve and sea lions frolic; Cordova, a remote fishing village on the Orca Inlet.

While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global warming effects) will cause more iceberg calving, I'm sure it will come as quite a shock to those same folks when they discover that there's...

Here, ice is loss by melting rather than iceberg calving as when glaciers meet the sea.

In some places, basal melt exceeds iceberg calving.

«Each of the last three years has seen a giant iceberg calve, from either Greenland or Antarctica,» he added.

Ocean - driven thinning enhances iceberg calving and retreat of Antarctic ice shelves.

The team's next steps include looking more closely at specific ocean swell events and sea ice conditions during known ice shelf collapses and large iceberg calving events.

«New iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier.»

Icebergs calving into the sea are a major source of Greenland's ice loss.

The region has made headlines in recent years for major iceberg calving events, like the iceberg twice the size of Paris that broke off from West Antarctica last September.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

During February 2002, 3250 km2 were lost through iceberg calving and fragmentation.

The ridgetop camera will record the pattern of iceberg calving.

When icebergs calve, they leave the much - larger region of ice behind them more vulnerable to melt.

One way to assess the health of ice sheets is to look at their balance: when an ice sheet is in balance, the ice gained through snowfall equals the ice lost through melting and iceberg calving.

The last time a large iceberg calved from Antarctica was in 2002, when a chunk about half the size of the Larsen C iceberg calved from a different ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen B (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197).

Q: What's more scientifically interesting: the iceberg calving or what happens next?

«We find that iceberg calving is not the dominant process of ice removal.

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

However, this iceberg calving event is a natural process, part of how the ice shelf regularly calves — this ice shelf spawns huge icebergs every 6 - 10 years.

This part of the ice shelf is structurally weak and prone to iceberg calving.

We used Sentinel - 1 satellite data to watch a giant iceberg four times the size of London break free from Antarctica's Larsen - C ice shelf in 2017, and now students can use the same data to measure if new icebergs calve off some of the fastest flowing glaciers in the world!»

A still from video of an iceberg calving from the Jacobshavn glacier in Greenland.