Sentences with phrase «quickly glaciers and ice sheets»
The system is helping scientists understand how quickly glaciers and ice sheets will melt, and how fast oceans will rise, as temperatures increase
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Pfeffer et al looked at the exit glaciers for Greenland and West Antarctica and made some back of the envelope calculations of how quickly the ice sheets could dynamically drain.
The results revealed that the world's glaciers and ice caps — defined as all land - based ice except the mighty Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets — began to shrink far more quickly in 2001.
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New views from satellites, plus vigorous programs of precise measurements from airplanes and on the ground, showed that enormous glaciers could quickly change their speed of travel, while entire ice sheets could break up within a matter of months.
The research suggests that mountain glaciers on Baffin Island and the huge North American ice sheet expanded quickly as the Earth cooled around 8,200 years ago.