Sentences with phrase «of calving events»

It also has some good shots of a couple of calving events.

These observations are being collected in our project over a period of several years as we build up a statistical data base of calving events.

«Think of a calving event kind of like a little earthquake,» O'Neel told OurAmazingPlanet.

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We have previously shown that the new configuration will be less stable than it was prior to the rift, and that Larsen C may eventually follow the example of its neighbour Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift - induced calving event.

«With this large calving event, and the availability of satellite technology, we have a fantastic opportunity to watch this natural experiment unfolding before our eyes.

It's the first time that researchers have been able to put boots on the ground so quickly after a massive calving event, and they have a lot of questions.

It's vital we achieve this or we are likely to see more calving of large ice shelves, similar to the recent Larsen C event.»

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

Their article asserts that a calving event is not necessarily due to changes in environmental conditions and may simply reflect the natural growth and decay cycle of an ice shelf.

Even relatively large calving events, where tabular ice chunks the size of Manhattan or bigger calve from the seaward front of the shelf, can be considered normal if the ice sheet is in overall balance.

There is a risk that Larsen C may eventually follow the example of its neighbour, Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift - induced calving event in 1995.

The goal is to track the dynamic response of the ice to the calving event, both short - term and long - term.

Climate signals are not clear enough to attribute the event to rising levels of carbon dioxide, but human activity may have contributed to its calving nonetheless.

Around that time, a string of especially warm summers triggered increased melting and calving events, which have continued to the present day.

Scientists witnessed gigantic events this year — a neutron star collision and a calving Antarctic iceberg — and also demonstrated the transformative power of more minuscule changes.

Larsen B collapsed shortly after its major calving event while the Wilkins ice shelf has continued to shed large chunks of ice since 2008.

However, this iceberg calving event is a natural process, part of how the ice shelf regularly calves — this ice shelf spawns huge icebergs every 6 - 10 years.

Calving from the floating termini of outlet glaciers and ice shelves is just the beginning of an interesting chain of events that can subsequently have important impacts on human life and property.

They caught a fresh calving event and described the cleaved slab as being about the height of two Empire State Buildings.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.

This extraordinary ice calving event happened in spite of it being the middle of winter at the South Pole.

For example a large 1987 calving event removed 100 years of ice accumulation from the Ross Ice Shelf in just one day, an amount second only to the loss of the Larsen Ice Shelf.

That earlier warming was associated with a large calving event of the Pine Island Glacier that likely occurred in association with an EL Nino event.

In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progress.

Detecting glacialquakes is important because glaciers appear to accelerate after large calving events.2 The frequency of glacialquakes — which has been rising since the late 1990s — has increased particularly since 2002.3 In fact, the number of quakes in 2005 was twice that of 2001.1 In late summer of 2005, glacial seismic activity was almost five times greater than in the winter months — most likely owing to seasonal changes in temperature.1, 3

U-M professor Jeremy Bassis is exploring how global warming is effecting glacial calving, and what impact these events will have on the rise of sea level.

While this event was natural and expected, scientists predict further calving events as temperatures rise, potentially unleashing several feet of sea level rise.

«I think this event is the calving equivalent of an «aftershock» following the much bigger event,» Ian Howat a glaciologist at Ohio State University told NASA.

[Response: You are confusing a normal and periodic calving event with the total collapse of an ice shelf — kind of like the difference between a haircut and decapitation.

An important event that occurred in this region recently was the calving of the Petermann Glacier, which took place 3 - 5 August 2010 (see Figures 3a and 3b).