Sentences with phrase «iceberg calving events»

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.

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 is a 2001 image and the large rift beyond this that spread across the glacier in 35 days or so, led to an iceberg calving event.

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.

Not exact matches

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

Larsen B experienced a major iceberg - calving event in 1995, followed by gradual retreat and then complete collapse seven years later.

Scientists witnessed gigantic events this year — a neutron star collision and a calving Antarctic iceberg — and also demonstrated the transformative power of more minuscule changes.

If there were truly an increase in glacier calving events (due to warming or any other cause), the best evidence would be an increase in iceberg numbers starting in 1900 for example.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.

Icebergs rarely form in this manner; in fact, large calving events happen just once every 40 — 50 years.

This was the second large calving event off this glacier in just two years: the iceberg that broke away in August 2010 was twice as large.