Sentences with phrase «northeastern part of the ice sheet»

«The fact that the mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet has generally increased over the last decades is well known,» Khan said, «but the increasing contribution from the northeastern part of the ice sheet is new and very surprising.»

Not exact matches

Indeed, if we closely look back at the map of the «rising» /» falling» tide gauges in Figure 8, we can see that some areas which would have been under or near the ice sheets during the glacial era show mostly «falling» trends (e.g., Fennoscandia in northern Europe, Alaska in US), while neighbouring areas show mostly «rising» trends (e.g., the parts of northern Europe south of Fennoscandia, northeastern North America).
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