Sentences with phrase «northeast ice stream»

However, the northeast ice stream, which drains 16 % of the ice sheet, was not thought to contribute.

Increased ice flow in this region is particularly troubling, Khan said, because the northeast ice stream stretches more than 600 kilometers (about 373 miles) into the center of the ice sheet, where it connects with the heart of Greenland's ice reservoir.

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They have found at least one «hotspot» in the northeast corner of Greenland — just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.

A Danish team last year also raised concern about the 600 - kilometre Zachariae ice stream, and confirmed that ice loss in the northeast of the island was accelerating.