Sentences with phrase «line retreat triggers»
Most of the WAIS is grounded below sea level and has the potential to collapse if grounding - line retreat triggers a strong positive feedback whereby ocean water undercuts the ice sheet and triggers further separation from the bedrock (35 ⇓ — 37).
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A retreat to that level, and a rebound, would trigger an adjustment in the position of the up - sloping trend line.
The height of these cliffs made them unstable, triggering the release of thousands of icebergs into Pine Island Bay, and causing the glacier to retreat rapidly until its grounding line reached a restabilising point in shallower water.
For instance, if a particular sector has been shown to potentially experience ocean warming in the future — one of the main triggers to grounding line retreat — we would assign a relatively high probability; while a sector already experiencing grounding line retreat would have a very high probability.