Sentences with phrase «other ice shelves»
Still, this event has provided an important opportunity for researchers to study how ice shelves fracture, with important implications for other ice shelves.
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Scientists have also used drilling and other techniques to look at ancient ecosystems under other ice shelves, but those methods often leave an incomplete picture.
Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice shelves, according to an international team of researchers.
And while it does not buttress a large amount of land ice, other ice shelves in Antarctica do hold back ice that makes sea levels rise.
These events doomed the Larsen - B Ice Shelf and other ice shelves along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Do that at Scar Inlet, and you can better predict how much ice will disappear as other ice shelves succumb farther south.
So, if Larsen C ultimately breaks up, researchers are concerned that could be a sign that other ice shelves holding back a large amount of land ice could cause oceans to rise.
Two other ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen A and B, disintegrated in 1995 and 2002 respectively, but it took years to get permits and research cruises scheduled to visit the newly opened water.
Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice shelves, according to an international team of researchers.
Other ice shelves along the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula, including the Wordie, Müller and Jones Ice Shelves, have also disintegrated.
Larsen C has more glacial ice flowing into it than all the other ice shelves that have collapsed combined.
Underlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf in Antarctica and may be the culprit for increased melting of other ice shelves, according to an international team of researchers.