Sentences with phrase «iceberg discharge»

Amplifying feedbacks include increased absorption of sunlight as melting exposes darker surfaces and speedup of iceberg discharge as the warming ocean melts ice shelves that otherwise inhibit ice flow.

During major iceberg discharges in the North Atlantic, known as Heinrich events, the ocean overturning circulation slowed to being almost still, the new evidence suggests.

Heinrich events — abrupt periods of substantial iceberg discharge from the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets — occurred repeatedly throughout the last glacial period and had pronounced global effects on climate.

This finding supports the Rhodes et al. hypothesis that increased rainfall in the southern tropics likely stimulated wetland methane emissions in response to massive iceberg discharge events during the last glacial period.

254 G. C. Bond, R. Lotti, «Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic on millennial time scales during the last glaciation,» Science 267:1005 (17 February 1995).

Enhanced tropical methane production in response to iceberg discharge in the North Atlantic, Science, 348, 1016, doi: 10.1126 / science.1262005.

Re # 42 (Smygga): The second study analyzed direct measurements of the surface (which account for snow accumulation and * minor * loss factors such as surface melt and blowing snow), but used a 1999 study to estimate the major loss factors of iceberg discharge and basal melting.

Enhanced tropical methane production in response to iceberg discharge in the North Atlantic.

Although NOAA highlights Greenland's surface melt rates, Rignot (2009) report that rates of iceberg discharge and rates of «submarine melting are two orders of magnitude larger than surface melt rates.»