However, the uncertainty in the reconstructed sea level is tens of metres and the uncertainty in the Mg / Ca temperature is sufficient to encompass the result from our δ18O prescription, which has comparable contributions
of ice volume change and deep ocean temperature change at the Late Eocene glaciation of Antarctica.
These changes are dominated by the amount
of ice volume change.
Not exact matches
Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies
of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and
ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle
changes in cerebral function in the absence
of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the
volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy
of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history
of concussions, which revealed early signs
of CTE.
So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate
change is impacting is a relatively very small piece
of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that
ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that
ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the
volume of the sea very quickly.
An international team
of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep - sea temperature and
ice -
volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the
ice ages came about.
In that sense, the observed decoupling
of temperature and
ice -
volume changes provides crucial new information for our understanding
of how the
ice ages developed.
The radar can measure the surface height variation
of ice in fine detail, allowing scientists to record
changes in its
volume with unprecedented accuracy.
To understand sea - level
change means understanding not only the transfer
of land
ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field
of the Earth
changes as inconceivably large water
volumes shift around the planet.
Measurements
of ice sheet elevation
changes indicate the
volume of ice lost, and hence the contribution to sea levels, he tells Carbon Brief.
Writing in Nature Climate
Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting
of quite a small
volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge
of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands
of years ahead.
The latter is almost linearly related to
changes in
ice sheet
volume; the former, however, is influenced by a range
of factors, including atmosphere / ocean dynamics and
changes in Earth's gravitational field, rotation, and crustal and the mantle deformation associated with the redistribution
of mass between land
ice and the ocean.
The typical estimate
of the sea - level
change is five metres, a value arrived at by taking the total
volume of the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet, converting it to water and spreading it evenly across the oceans.
- a lot
of focus was put on sound effects in order to immerse players in the world
of Hyrule - the development team worked with Sound Racer, a studio specialized in sound effects - this studio also worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X - they recorded more than 10 000 different sounds for the game - the team used a school bag to simulate the sound
of rubbing leather - for the sound
of «normal» footsteps, they mixed various kinds
of sands - for the sounds
of equipment, they had to search for various materials and find ways to use them - they used an actual block
of ice to recreate the sound
of footsteps on
ice - with the
ice block, it always ended up melting, or getting cracks when the staff had to walk on it - Link's footsteps were made by a woman - depending on Link's actions and the equipment he's using / wearing, the recorded sounds were separated out individually - the
volume is
changed as needed to make a particular sound stand out - check out sound effect samples here
If one takes the simple view that deglaciation is forced by only global
ice volume change and greenhouse feedbacks, then one would be forced to conclude that Antarctic temperature
change led all
of its forcings!
Although the primary driver
of glacial — interglacial cycles lies in the seasonal and latitudinal distribution
of incoming solar energy driven by
changes in the geometry
of the Earth's orbit around the Sun («orbital forcing»), reconstructions and simulations together show that the full magnitude
of glacial — interglacial temperature and
ice volume changes can not be explained without accounting for
changes in atmospheric CO2 content and the associated climate feedbacks.
The
changes in
volume over a season also tell us how much
ice is produced, how much heat is extracted from the ocean, how much brine is injected into the ocean as a result
of ice growth and how much melt water is injected back into the ocean.
So how much do
changes in the Arctic atmosphere play a role in the loss
of sea -
ice volume and the apparent failure
of the GCMs to reflect the current
volume loss?
So, I was curious about your recent paper and whether there was any discussion
of changes in the THC poleward
of the GIS shelf vs the data from the RAPID program line located at 26.5 N. With the decline in minimum extent and
volume of sea -
ice, one might expect to see more THC sinking into the Arctic Ocean, with consequences for both climate and weather.
The fact that our model does a surprisingly good job with simulating the last 400,000 years
of global
ice volume, with no
change in model physics and only one linear
change in boundary conditions, argues for the fact that, despite plausible deficiencies, we have done a surprisingly good job
of simulating the pattern
of fluctuations in
ice volume.
In any case, any
changes in average
volume over the course
of the year have been minimal compared to the Antarctic
ice loss.
On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level
change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate
change, that alter the
volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange
of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and
ice caps,
ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic
change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).
While it's important to know the
volume of an
ice sheet - or how much space it takes up - it can
change without affecting the amount
of ice that is present.
Glacial periods during the 100,000 - year cycles have been characterised by a very slow build - up
of ice which took thousands
of years, the result
of ice volume responding to orbital
change far more slowly than the ocean temperatures reacted.
Then in 2003 the launch
of two new satellites, ICESat and GRACE, led to vast improvements in one
of the methods for mass balance determination,
volume change, and introduced the ability to conduct gravimetric measurements
of ice sheet mass over time.
Whether it exists as
ice or water, it still has the same mass, it still displaces the same
volume and there's no
change in the
volume of the ocean if it melts.
The entire structure loses mechanical strength despite the fact that only a tiny
volume of ice on the surface
changes temperature and thus its mechanical properties.
«Nonetheless, Jacob and colleagues have dramatically altered our understanding
of recent global (glacier and
ice cap)
volume changes, and their contribution to sea - level rise,» Bamber wrote, referring to study researcher Thomas Jacob
of Colorado - Boulder.
There has been no
change in the
volume of Arctic Sea
Ice since 1980
For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent
changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea
ice extent and sea
ice volume and sea
ice density and moisture content in the air and cloud coverage and rainfall and measures
of extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result
of a statistical modeling
of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.
As you mentioned gravity
changes due to many causes, also orbital drift and large guesses with potential biases make the estimates
of total
ice volume have very large error bars.
Climate
change has already removed at least 75 percent
of Arctic summer sea
ice volume at rates never before experienced in human history.
At the very margins, this doesn't matter, what does matter is where
ice is retained all summer but a lot
of the top
ice melts off, so the area doesn't
change but the
volume does.
Al Rodger: Well, yes, according to the PIOMAS the total
change in Arctic
ice volume during prior normal period was from about 28000 cubic km in winter to about 12000 at the minimum, or a
change of about 16000 as you stated.
The modeled evolution
of Arctic sea
ice volume appears to be much stronger correlated with
changes in
ice thickness than with
ice extent as it shows a similar negative trend beginning around the mid-1990s.
Maslowski's recent, peer - reviewed work (Maslowski W., Clement Kinney J., Higgins M., Roberts A. (2012) «The Future
of Arctic Sea
Ice», The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40: 625 - 654) emphasizes «the need for detailed analyses of changes in sea ice thickness and volume to determine the actual rate of melt of Arctic sea ice&raqu
Ice», The Annual Review
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40: 625 - 654) emphasizes «the need for detailed analyses
of changes in sea
ice thickness and volume to determine the actual rate of melt of Arctic sea ice&raqu
ice thickness and
volume to determine the actual rate
of melt
of Arctic sea
ice&raqu
ice».
«The climate has always
changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates
of change of temperature,
of ice volume,
of sea level or
of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.
We use realistic estimates
of mass redistribution from
ice mass loss and land water storage to quantify the resulting ocean bottom deformation and its effect on global and regional ocean
volume change estimates.
Uncertainties in the timing
of ice - margin retreat and global
ice -
volume change allow a variety
of plausible deglaciation triggers.
Poitou & Bréon do not explain why the
ice pack
volume would be relevant for the albedo; according to Haas (2005)[47] the
changes of the thickness
of the sea
ice are small since they are correctly measured by an airborne radio apparatus, only over the Arctic.
Although the surface
of the Greenland
ice sheet can react rapidly to day - to - day weather
changes, the melting
of the
volume of ice below is actually an inert process — driven by climatic
changes instead
of single meteorological events.
«This allows us to get a better picture
of projected regional
ice volume change and potential impacts on local water supplies, and
changes in glacier size distribution,» Radic said.
In the absence
of information about the vertical distribution
of the
ice, we make the assumption that the
volume change is proportional to the area
change.
They use a range
of techniques to track
changes in the
volume of the
ice - sheet over a 500 - year period, and compare it with measurements
of ice - accumulation obtained by deep boring undertaken by Lonnie Thompson
of Ohio State University.
Our simple scaling approximation implicitly assumes that
ice sheets are sufficiently responsive to climate
change that hysteresis is not a dominant effect; in other words,
ice volume on millennial time scales is a function
of temperature and does not depend much on whether the Earth is in a warming or cooling phase.
To a first approximation, sea - level
changes reflect the
volume of ocean water bound in continental
ice sheets during the
ice ages.
b) volumetric effects —
change in the
volume of water contained in the oceans and the geometry and areal extent
of the ocean basins c) gravitational effects —
change in the gravitational attraction
of the earth (induced by deformation), by the
change in distribution
of ice and by the
change in self - attraction
of the water d) rotational effects —
change in the moment
of inertia caused by a
change in the distribution
of mass within the earth and on its surface.
Shackleton (2000);
changes of CO2 preceding
changes in
ice sheet
volume were reported in Shackleton and Pisias (1985).
Arctic summer sea
ice is in rapid decline [2nd lowest extent on record after 2007, and perhaps more importantly, the lowest
volume of ice ever — this, along with the methane increase, could indicate a tipping element has been crossed that will kick climate
change into a higher gear]
Thus, two - thirds
of the 180 m sea - level
change between the
ice - free planet and the LGM occurred with formation
of Northern Hemisphere
ice (and probably some increased
volume of Antarctic
ice).
However, as the water vapor rises the lapse rate means that the
volume of air cools and eventually the water vapor condenses into water droplets and then into
ice latent heat is given off to the surrounding air at each
of these phase
changes, with two effects.