Sentences with phrase «robust ice cap»
A robust ice cap, due to its thermal capacity, can not melt away in summer.
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«As more studies are done in Iceland, with better equipment (and hence better data), I would not be surprised to see more robust and convincing evidence of increases in magma production and / or eruptions in Iceland as the current ice caps shrink further.
Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).
The ice cap we see today is not robust.