Sentences with phrase «land ice toward»

And as they fall apart, the flow of land ice toward the sea accelerates, speeding up sea - level rise.

Not exact matches

What matters for sea - level rise is the addition of ice from land into the ocean, however it's the ice shelves that hold off the flow of grounded ice toward the ocean.

Whether dealing with historically intact or novel ecosystems — the 47 percent of Earth's ice - free land that has been altered by humans — scientists need to look at the paleobiology of the region, that is, what the ecosystem looked like before humans altered it, and seek to rebuild it to some degree toward that natural balance, Barnosky said.

Over the last decade, satellites have revealed the glacier is the site of the most dramatic ice loss in its West Antarctica neighborhood, a fringe of coastline just west of the Antarctic Peninsula — the narrow finger of land that points toward South America.

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«Although this paper will likely become a classic compilation of our view in 2017, the 79 ice cores analyzed are spatially restricted,» he told Earther, noting that West Antarctic cores are biased toward the highest ground, and that East Antarctic record is biased because of a cluster of cores in Dronning Maud Land, a vast chunk of ice annexed by Norway in 1939.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

They used 15 years of satellite radar data from the European Earth Remote Sensing - 1 and -2, Canada's Radarsat - 1 and Japan's Advanced Land Observing satellites to reveal the pattern of ice sheet motion toward the sea.

(To get an updated reading of whether trends in Antarctica toward lower land ice are continuing).

However, the loss of such a massive ice berg from Larsen C, the present human - forced warming of the Antarctic land and ocean environment, and the presently observed thinning of the ice shelf all point toward a rising risk of destabilization or disintegration.