Sentences with phrase «rapid ice stream»
The PIG is not dominated by its ice shelf, hence the potential for rapid ice stream response.
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Recent glacial history and rapid ice stream retreat in the Amundsen Sea.
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The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.
The mechanism for their rapid movement is being intensively studied because of the possibility that rapid ice - stream flow may cause the ice sheet to disintegrate, resulting in a disastrous rise in world - wide sea level.
The discovery is significant in relation to the mechanism for rapid movement of the ice streams, which are huge, fast - flowing ice currents within the slow - moving ice sheet that covers most of Antarctica.
The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the continent could be altering the jet stream [3]-- and thus weather patterns — over North America, Europe and Russia, increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events and driving winter storms south.
A number of climate scientists are currently investigating the possible link between abnormal jet streams and the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice, which if true would mean climate change may not only be exacerbating heatwaves but cold spells as well.
Recent satellite and in situ observations of ice streams behind disintegrating ice shelves highlight some rapid reactions of ice sheet systems.