Sentences with phrase «of ice collapsed»

The second unit was setting up near Base 2 when a wall of ice collapsed 1,000 feet above them, killing 13 sherpas and climbers.

, «CO2 as control knob», and opening paragraphs invoking CO2 indicate he's more concerned with CO2 than the actual processes of ice collapse.

But it is clear that further greenhouse gas emission will heighten the risk of an ice collapse in West Antarctica and more unstoppable sea - level rise.»

Not exact matches

In an excerpt in the Atlantic from his book Caesar's Last Breath, author Sam Kean explained Langmuir's idea: Growing ice in the eye of the hurricane would make the eye grow wider and collapse the storm.

Because of that volatility in Antarctica, it's too soon to say whether this year's collapse in global sea ice is an aberration.

While we might examine the hole in the ice in hindsight, and find some particular fracture that contributed to the collapse, this is much like looking for the particular pebble of sand that triggers an avalanche, or the specific vibration that triggers an earthquake.

At - home motherhood may include those things, but often is also a «scream through the park» (if toys get taken or sand gets into little eyes), a «whine through the park» (if the ice cream truck shows up and mom doesn't want to buy), or a «collapse in the park» (from the exhaustion of trying to keep up with small children all day)!

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

She studies the mechanisms of ice sheet collapse, the origins of subglacial lakes, and their hidden ecosystems.

I spend a lot of time studying the ice sheets at the bottom of the planet — how they form and how they collapse.

While Antarctic ice shelves are in direct contact with both the atmosphere and the surrounding oceans, and thus subject to changes in environmental conditions, they also go through repeated internally - driven cycles of growth and collapse.

Large sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf A and B, and the Wilkins1 ice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectiveIce Shelf A and B, and the Wilkins1 ice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectiveice - shelf collapsed in a matter of days in 1995, 2002, and 2008, respectively.

In 2002, scientists were astonished to see the rapid collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, which disintegrated almost entirely between 31 January and 13 April.

But as the chain of ice shelf collapse pushes farther south from the peninsula's tip toward the mainland, to Larsen B and Scar Inlet, it is now entering the ominous realm of historical anomaly.

All told, as warm summers have reached farther down from the bottom of South America into the northernmost section of the Antarctic Peninsula, four ice shelves on the eastern side of the peninsula, including Larsen A, have collapsed in a striking pattern from the northern tip southward toward the Antarctic mainland.

That's led to the collapse of ice shelves.

Dr Gudmundsson said: «Although floating ice shelves have only a modest impact on of sea - level rise, ice from Antarctica's interior can discharge into the ocean when they collapse.

Brückner and his colleagues had witnessed the collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf, a signature event.

As climate warmed, and the ice sheet collapsed, enormous amounts of methane were abruptly released.

How does this demonstrate the rapid collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf?

Previous research has suggested that the majority of the water was lost to space as a result of the collapse of the planet's magnetic field, when it was either swept away by high intensity solar winds or locked up as sub-surface ice.

«Icebergs: Mathematical model calculates the collapse of shelf ice.»

3 Collapse of the vacuum In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of «ice - nine,» a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature.

SPEED UP The collapse of West Antarctica's glaciers may be unavoidable, and the ice sheet's demise could raise global sea level by as much as 4 meters, researchers reported.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

«When the serac hovering off the West Shoulder of Everest collapsed, it sent house - sized ice blocks all over the route,» Alan Arnette, a climber and motivational speaker, wrote in an updated blog post from Base Camp.

As part of her doctorate research, she has developed mathematical models to calculate when and where the ice shelf may collapse.

Scientists have spotted the mortal wound that could prompt the collapse of Antarctica's fourth - largest ice shelf.

On the basis of physical factors, it is claimed that these models can be used to predict when and where the ice may collapse.

To reproduce the vertical collapse of landslide material in the landslide scarp area and the extreme thinning and runout in the front, the model must take into account the presence of ice in the calculations.

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

The authors, therefore, demonstrate how the presence of ice, exposed on the ground or in the collapsing slope, could affect the shape and velocity of these landslides.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

Scambos's group predicted the final Larsen B collapse using a model that looks at how much meltwater has pooled on the surface of the ice, and he now hopes to apply the model to bigger Antarctic ice shelves.

The northern section of the Larsen B ice shelf — a thick slab of floating ice on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula — has collapsed and separated from the continent, researchers report.

«It was the biggest collapse of its kind up to that point, and it served to demonstrate how ice shelves regulate the movement of ice from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean.»

For example, it says a sudden methane release from the ocean, or a slowdown of the Gulf Stream, are «very unlikely» and that a collapse of the West Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets during this century is «exceptionally unlikely.»

In one scenario, interstellar clouds contain tricky - to - see oxygen gas, which got caught up as the cloud collapsed into a disc, then flash - froze and stuck to tiny grains of ice.

Several studies have shown that around 10,000 years ago, as the planet came out of the last ice age, vast portions of volcanic summit cones collapsed, leading to enormous landslides.

Hot water drilling still posed challenges: A borehole filled with water would quickly refreeze, and the hole could still collapse shut under the sheer weight of the surrounding ice sheet.

The creatures (shown here in the western Weddell Sea) made a surprising emergence following the collapse of the Larsen A ice shelf.

Time - lapse visualizations of temperature, precipitation, receding sea ice, and collapsing ice shelves create a vivid experience of the natural pulses of the planet and the shifts brought on by climate change.

We reassess the potential contribution to eustatic and regional sea level from a rapid collapse of the ice sheet and find that previous assessments have substantially overestimated its likely primary contribution.

The collapse of several small ice shelves has caused glaciers to accelerate two - to ninefold and spill more ice into the ocean, raising the sea level.

A few days later, back at her office whiteboard, she thought about the collapsed sheet of ice above each lake, full of giant fractures like the ones above Grimsvotn.

Now seafloor sediments reveal that Larsen B's grounding line had remained stable for thousands of years before the ice shelf's collapse.

Its approaching demise continues a disturbing trend: the progressive collapse of five ice shelves since 1989.

Some say the record loss of sea ice in summer 2012 was a one - off, others that it was the start of a runaway collapse.

Only floating sea ice (bottom right) remains of the collapsed Larsen B ice shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Data from NASA, European, and Canadian satellites show a continuing impact from the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in early 2002.