Sentences with phrase «in ice sheet stability»

The 2001 IPCC report described large uncertainties in ice sheet stability; the 2007 report may describe fewer.

The 2001 IPCC report described large uncertainties in ice sheet stability; the 2007 report may describe fewer.

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In fact, learning about the lakes and rivers could shed light (albeit from a very dark place) on weighty matters ranging from ice - sheet stability — how much do the lakes enhance the flow of ice toward the sea?

It appears global warming is replicating conditions that, in the past, triggered significant shifts in the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Ice shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulatiIce shelves are important, because they play a role in the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulatiIce Sheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulaSheet and the ice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulatiice sheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulasheet's mass balance, and are important for ocean stratification and bottom water formation; this helps drive the world's thermohaline circulation.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

Thus the entire 3 — 4 meters of global sea level contained in that ice sheet may be vulnerable to rapid disintegration, although arguments for stability of even this marine ice sheet have been made [94].

The «details» are important and interesting, and may in fact be of key importance to society (rather than just of academic interest... for example the stability of the Greenland ice sheet), but they are called details for a reason.

states, in part, «Thus, in the foreseeable future, sea - level rise should not threaten the ice sheet's stability [for Whillans Ice Stream out to the Ross ice shelf].&raqice sheet's stability [for Whillans Ice Stream out to the Ross ice shelf].&raqIce Stream out to the Ross ice shelf].&raqice shelf].»

In the case of the East Antarctica Ice - Sheet (EAIS), the situation has been less clear: thinning of ice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabilitIn the case of the East Antarctica Ice - Sheet (EAIS), the situation has been less clear: thinning of ice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabiliIce - Sheet (EAIS), the situation has been less clear: thinning of ice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabiliice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabilitin some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stability.

In addition we have coupled the ice model Sicopolis to our Earth System model CLIMBER - 2 to study the stability of the Greenland ice sheet in past and future climate changeIn addition we have coupled the ice model Sicopolis to our Earth System model CLIMBER - 2 to study the stability of the Greenland ice sheet in past and future climate changein past and future climate changes.

That is to say, decisions over the next two or three decades affecting this larger context may influence the climate of 2100 and beyond in ways that are at least as significant as the implications of even the major current scientific uncertainties, like climate sensitivity and long - term ice - sheet stability.

Scientific Discipline Cryosphere Speaker Eric Rignot (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract Modern views of ice sheets provided by satellites, airborne surveys, in situ data and paleoclimate records while transformative of glaciology have not fundamentally changed concerns about ice sheet stability and collapse that emerged in the 1970's.

Despite the stability of those ice sheets in the Holocene, there is evidence that sea level was much more variable during the Eemian, when we estimate the peak global temperature was only +1.0 °C warmer than in the first decade of the twenty - first century.

Filed under headings such as» It's not that bad», the app answers questions on topics ranging from the stability of ice sheets to errors in the IPCC's fourth assessment report.

«There's been a lot of speculation about the stability of marine ice sheets, and many scientists suspected that this kind of behavior is under way,» Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a news release about one of the studies published Monday.

My work also concerns past, present, and future stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, as well as palaeoclimate - archaeologic links in the high Andes.