Sentences with phrase «rapid glacier acceleration»
Ice shelves are important because they help control glacier flow; removal of ice shelves causes rapid glacier acceleration and calving.
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Similar patterns of ice calving and retreat leading to rapid glacier acceleration have also been observed in Greenland.
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While I was attending a conference on rapid glacier flow in Vancouver BC in 1986, data were presented that showed no acceleration of Pine Island Glacier.
There is a potential difference between the two, in glacier such as most marine terminating outlet glaciers, where the glacier flow is rapid, acceleration results from retreat and thinning.
In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009).
Unfortunately, there is risk that this trend will include the sudden acceleration of various glaciers into the ocean, which will coincide with rapid increases in global rates of sea level rise.
According to Holland, this period coincides with the presence of warm water around western Greenland and the rapid retreat and acceleration of the Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier.