Sentences with phrase «off an ice shelf»

«There have been some idealized studies using models, and even some indirect observations off the ice shelves, suggesting that El Niño might significantly affect some of these shelves, but we had no actual ice - shelf observations.

When an iceberg calves off an ice shelf, there is less ice to push back on the glaciers, causing them to speed up.

Not exact matches

More than once we had lost one of our four engines, and in 1987 a giant crack became persistently visible along the edge of the Larsen B ice shelf, off the Antarctic Peninsula — making it abundantly clear that an emergency landing would be no gentle touchdown.

But huge chunks of ice, some the size of a bus, have broken off the shelf.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12.

MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOff the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.

Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf.

What matters for sea - level rise is the addition of ice from land into the ocean, however it's the ice shelves that hold off the flow of grounded ice toward the ocean.

They are now heading through relatively ice - free waters to the Larsen A ice shelf, where a giant iceberg broke off in 1995.

Massive ice shelves — Antarctica's largest is bigger than California — get shoved off and float atop the ocean.

While her colleagues are modelling when the next ice shelf will break off or forecasting next year's drought, Gillian is making this information relevant to non-scientists.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

In July, a Delaware - sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (SN: 8/5/17, p. 6).

The crack could break off a massive area of ice and threaten the ice shelf's stability.

«Loss of ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic continent could have a major effect on the rate of ice flow off the continent,» Scambos notes.

The British Antarctic Survey vessel R.R.S. Bransfield was anchored off an 800 - foot - thick frozen slab called the Brunt ice shelf when two passengers noticed some odd brown ball - like creatures floating by.

Some large chunks of ice have broken off Antarctica's ice shelves in recent years, although most researchers don't foresee runaway melting there.

Even Spitsbergen was warmer than the east coast of Novaya Zemlya — the Gulf Stream does not extend that far — and in Barents» time the prevailing wind, then northeasterly, came straight off the Arctic ice shelf.

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

Slabs continued to calve and break up throughout the next 10 days; by March 8 the Wilkins ice shelf, comprising some 5,000 square miles of floating ice off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, had lost 160 square miles of ice to the Pacific Ocean.

By the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self - amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second - largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramaticalIce Shelf, ultimately causing the second - largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramaticalice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically.

Climate records derived from the analysis of sediments show that ice shelves off the peninsula have been absent in several earlier eras, when natural variability warmed the world.

The shelves are thick platforms of ice that ride on top of the water off some parts of the coastline.

A 100 - meter - wide, kilometers - long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf could soon break off a 5,000 - square - kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.

One example offered in their paper is typical: On Oct 3, 2015, an NSF / NCAR research aircraft took off from southern Chile and flew south to measure the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelf.

Luftwerk used the worldwide attention paid to the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica — which broke off into the Weddell Sea in July 2017 — as a starting point for their project.

Labile organic carbon dynamics in continental shelf sediments recently exposed after an ice shelf collapse: a radiochemical approach to the Larsen system off the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.

Scientists recognized that climate change is rapidly altering the landscape in Antarctica, particularly when it comes to glacier retreat and ice shelf collapse, so they made a pact for how they would approach research as huge chunks of ice broke off.

The Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 and the Wilkins ice shelf in 2008 both saw huge icebergs break off due largely to warming waters.

The Larson C ice shelf in Antarctica is creeping closer to breaking off, and when it does, it's set to form one of the biggest icebergs on record.

When an iceberg might break off is anybody's guess — it could happen in months, or it could take years — though any ice shelf collapse would likely take decades, experts say.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, British scientists announced Wednesday.

We used Sentinel - 1 satellite data to watch a giant iceberg four times the size of London break free from Antarctica's Larsen - C ice shelf in 2017, and now students can use the same data to measure if new icebergs calve off some of the fastest flowing glaciers in the world!»

It would seem that ice melters like Safe Paw variety are flying off the shelves this particular winter season for apparent reasons.

The Natural Resources Defense Council had a stunning sculpture by Chicago - based art collective Luftwerk, White Wanderer, inspired by the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, which broke off into the sea this summer.

Somewhat off - topic, but Antarctica Glacier Retreat [should read: Antarctic Penninsula ice shelf collapse] Creates New Carbon Dioxide Store; Has Beneficial Impact On Climate Change http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091109121117.htm

8) Accelerated mass loss in Greenland and / or Antarctica, perhaps with another huge ice shelf breaking off, but in any case coupled with another measurable rise in the rate of sea level rise, 9) The Fifth Assessment Report (2012 - 2013) really spelling out what we face with no punches pulled.

Maybe it's because of global warming, and the Antarctic sea ice is increasing because chunks of the ice shelf are breaking off and becoming sea ice.

My cursory reviews of some of the available imagery finds that the intervals between images are such that I can not discern the sort of circulation in the forming autumn ice pack off the shelf that would be consistent with 10 km diameter chimney - pots.

But worse, the rising sea levels will raise the Antarctic ice shelves and they will break off or collapse.

When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.

When a massive chunk of the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica breaks off and reminds us that the Earth's poles are currently undergoing huge changes.

A long - running rift in Larsen C ice shelf suddenly grew in December, becoming almost as huge as Delaware and now poised to break off from Antarctica anytime soon.

When ice shelves already largely in the water break off from the continental ice mass, this does not have much direct effect on sea level per se.

The ice shelves themselves have a certain structure — they rest on the sea floor but as they extend out from the continent eventually the ice lifts off the sea floor (called the grounding point) and as the ice extends out further it is floating on top of the water.

If there is one thing we have learned, if you are to keep the global warming hoax alive, you must personalize the Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in a SUV.

The Canadian one created a 1000 - meter - deep ice shelf pushing out into the Arctic on the continental shelf off northern Alaska.

An iceberg nearly the size of Delaware may break off from one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves, the Larsen C, early this year.

Due to rising temperatures, a Delaware - sized piece of the Antarctic ice shelf broke off into the sea in July.