Sentences with phrase «including ice sheet margins»
The European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 mission has enhanced Antarctic ice sheet monitoring by including areas closer to the poles than earlier satellites, and by acquiring better data in moderately sloping areas, including ice sheet margins where most of the ice loss occurs.
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The margins of all ice sheets (including Greenland) are in retreat, and accumulation is negative over almost the whole of the West Antarctic sheet.
At times, its southern margin included the modern sites of New York City and Chicago, and then followed quite precisely the present course of the Missouri River up to the northern slopes of the Cypress Hills, beyond which it merged with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet.