Sentences with phrase «of ice on land»
Unlike the melting of sea ice or the floating ice shelves along coasts, the melting of ice on land raises sea level.
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Unlike floating ice formations, water originating from the larger masses of ice on land introduces more water that raises the overall sea level worldwide.
They also identify three primary contributors to this acceleration: the thermal expansion of sea water, reduced storage of water on land and the melting of ice on land.
«Significant changes in altitudes above sea level in several parts of the Arctic, including Svalbard and Greenland, with build - up of ice on land, stimulated the distribution of the sea ice,» Jochen Knies says.
Those words describe where Antarctica's voluminous ice shelves begin to float, holding back a wall of ice on land.
«Significant changes in altitudes above sea level in several parts of the Arctic, including Svalbard and Greenland, with build - up of ice on land, stimulated the distribution of the sea ice,» Jochen Knies says.
So melting of ice on land, or precipitation from the atmosphere can only decrease the moment of inertia, so the rotation speeds up as land ice melts, and runs down to sea level.
Over the past 50 million years, earth cooled because the amount of warm water that was circulated in Polar Regions was increased, increasing the amount of ice on land that the cycle supported.