Sentences with phrase «large iceberg calving»

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.

The last time a large iceberg calved from Antarctica was in 2002, when a chunk about half the size of the Larsen C iceberg calved from a different ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen B (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197).

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Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf.

Healthy ice shelves tend to shed, or «calve,» large, tabular icebergs, sometimes larger than the state of Rhode Island.

The ice shelf is in the midst of a natural process of calving a large iceberg, which it hasn't done since 2001.

Pine Island Glacier is buttressed by a large, floating ice shelf, which helps to stabilise the glacier, but this ice shelf is itself thinning and recently calved a huge iceberg.

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.

The heavily crevassed surface (extending to the distant horizon) of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's fastest outlet glaciers, is shown on this large iceberg that calved from the glacier's end.

In part because the large Jakobshavn Isbrae moves so quickly, it is difficult to tell the glacier ice (right and top) from the many icebergs it has calved off (center front) into the fjord.

It is conjectured that this strong AABW freshening seen in 2016 may have been due to changes associated with the 2010 calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue along the George V / Adélie Land Coast that resulted in the ungrounding of a large iceberg.

This week, a large iceberg that recently calved from West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier rapidly and unexpectedly disintegrated as it drifted away from the frozen continent.

The ice shelf is in the midst of a natural process of calving a large iceberg, which it hasn't done since 2001.

Between November 9 — 11, 2013, a large iceberg finally separated from the calving front of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier.

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

Icebergs form when chunks of ice calve, or break off, from glaciers, ice shelves, or a larger iceberg.

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.

Joughin, I. & MacAyeal, D. R,» Calving of large tabular icebergs from ice shelf rift systems», Geophysical Research Letters, 32, 2005.