Sentences with phrase «observed ice edge»

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So, as the leading edge melts, this deformation and filling would be first observed as a thinning of the sheet and, in particular, the trunk or main ice stream channel, as well as an acceleration of the stream.

This is in fact increasingly observed around the edges of Greenland and Antarctica in recent years: outlet glaciers and ice streams that drain the ice sheets have greatly accelerated their flow.

Zhang and Lindsay, 4.4 + / -0.5, Modeling The predicted ice edge in the western Arctic in 2012 is close to that observed in 2011, while the predicted ice extent in the eastern Arctic is smaller than in 2011 (Fig. 2).

Bidlot, S. Jacobsen, S. Lehner, P. O. G. Persson and A. L. Pleskachevsky (June 2017): The Potential of TerraSAR - X to Observe Wind Wave Interaction at the Ice Edge.

Moulin discharges mapped inside ∼ 52 % of the source ice watershed for Isortoq, a major proglacial river, totaled ∼ 41 — 98 % of observed proglacial discharge, highlighting the importance of supraglacial river drainage to true outflow from the ice edge.

The same changes, increased melting of ice at the edges and increased snowfall adding ice on top, are also observed in Greenland.