Not exact matches
«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a
process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar
ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading
scientist in the study of Enceladus.
«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical
processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland
ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research
scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies
ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.
For the first time,
scientists have obtained direct, quantifiable observations of cloud seeding for increased snowfall — from the growth of
ice crystals, through the
processes that occur in clouds, to the eventual snowfall.
This
process is a function of the temperature, so in looking at the isotopic composition in the different dated layers of the
ice,
scientists can study the temperature of the past.
«By
processing the historical archive acquired by the Danish during the last century, they were able to provide an estimation of the
ice sheet contribution to sea - level rise since 1900, which was critically missing in the last IPCC report,» noted Jeremie Mouginot, a climate
scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Now, experiments by geoscientists from Brown and Columbia universities suggest that this
process, called tidal dissipation, could create far more heat in Europa's
ice than
scientists had previously assumed.
That's a
process playing out throughout the Southern Ocean, but
scientists don't have a good grasp on it or how sudden changes like the loss of a huge hunk of
ice will alter carbon uptake.
Scientists are working to understand their underlying
processes, such as which particle surface properties encourage or discourage
ice formation, called nucleation, so they can accurately simulate how, where, and when clouds are formed.
The information from the study helps improve
scientists» understanding of the behavior of the
ice sheet and what
processes control the loss of
ice, Beata Csatho, a geophysicist at the University of Buffalo in New York who was not involved with the work, said in a commentary published in the same issue of Nature.
Bassis, the
ice sheet
scientist at the University of Michigan, first described the theoretical
process of marine
ice - cliff instability in research published only a few years ago.
Meanwhile, a different physical
process in the comet's smooth mid-section was causing water
ice to vaporize and flow through porous material to escape as a cloud of water vapor at the same time (NASA news release, and page on «fluffy snowballs;» David Shiga, New
Scientist, November 18, 2010; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).
You start with the typical «mad
scientist's first chemistry set»
process of adding water to powder packets to make «
icing.»
But many
scientists doubt, for all the drama, that this
process will end up moving meaningful quantities of
ice into the sea.
What
scientists once thought was a fairly simple linear
process — that is, a certain amount at the surface of an
ice sheet melts each year, depending on the temperature — is now seen to be much more complicated.
Overall,
scientists believe that Antarctica is starting to lose
ice, but so far the
process has not become as quick or as widespread as in Greenland.
To study the concept, NASA
scientists used a numerical depiction of the physics of
ice sheets to capture natural sources of heating and heat transport from freezing, melting and liquid water; friction; and other
processes.
By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial
ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the
process could help
scientists measure the rate of glacier melt and track fast - changing polar environments.
The US CLIVAR Greenland
Ice Sheet - Ocean Interactions Working Group was formed to foster and promote interaction between the diverse oceanographic, glaciological, atmospheric and climate communities, including modelers and field and data
scientists within each community, interested in glacier / ocean interactions around Greenland, to advance understanding of the
process and ultimately improve its representation in climate models.
These regional trends together yield a small increase, so studying each region will help
scientists get a better grasp on the
processes affecting sea
ice there.
«IceBridge has collected so much data on elevation and thickness that we can now do analysis down to the individual glacier level and do it for the entire
ice sheet,» said Michael Studinger, IceBridge project
scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «We can now quantify contributions from the different
processes that contribute to
ice loss.»
AGW climate
scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical
processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar
ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..
Of course, calving is a natural
process for icebergs, but
scientists are divided over the cause of Larsen C calving due to the sheer volume of
ice that broke off.
Since to me (and many
scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate
scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and
ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar
ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same
process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.
Scientists use models to simulate sea
ice processes.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83672 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-
ice-sheet-has-begun-
scientists-say.html It will add about 10 feet according to an interview with one of the
scientists involved; but over a long time and fairly vague time frame, unless reinforcing
processes (carbon release from melting permafrost, shallow ocean bottom warmingn in the form of methane from clathrates), a major reduction in earth's albedo from permafrost, net
ice sheet, and total sea
ice, continue to increasingly accelerate the
process.
Climate
scientists study icebergs as they break up for clues to the
processes that cause
ice shelf collapse.
Among the global - scale tipping points identified by earth
scientists are the collapse of large
ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, changes in ocean circulation, feedback
processes by which warming triggers more warming, and the acidification of the ocean.h
By improving our grasp on the
processes that lead an iceberg to break up,
scientists hope to gain insight into
ice shelf disintegration.
Glaciers Sizzle, Squirt Bubbles When Melting To Create Loudest Marine Environment; These Sounds Could Help To Measure
Ice Melt By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of
Ice Melt By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial
ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of
ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the
process could help
scientists measure the rate of...
In light of trends showing a likely 3 °C or more global temperature rise by the end of this century (a figure that could become much higher if all feedback
processes, such as changes of sea
ice and water vapor, are taken into account) that could result in sea level rises ranging from 20 to 59 cm (again a conservative estimation), Hansen believes it is critical for
scientists in the field to speak out about the consequences and rebuke the spin offered by pundits who «have denigrated suggestions that business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions may cause a sea level rise of the order of meters.»
Two teams of
scientists say the long - feared collapse of the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet has begun, kicking off what they say will be a centuries - long, «unstoppable»
process that could raise sea levels by as much as 15 feet.