Sentences with phrase «sea ice tongue»

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The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sIce Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice sheets from sliding into the sea.

However, it is often overlooked that the major ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas and the many smaller shelves and ice tongues buttressing outlet glaciers are also vulnerable to atmospheric warming.»

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

An interesting feature in both images is the tongue of old sea ice (red) extending into the southern Beaufort Ssea ice (red) extending into the southern Beaufort SeaSea.

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

The tongue of perennial sea ice between the North Pole and Eurasia is the sea ice that survived the summer of 2008.

For most of the summer there was a persistent tongue of ice in the Chukchi Sea (north of Wrangel Island) that finally disappeared at a later stage.

The obstacles to get to the ice shelf were extreme, but the science goal was simple: to measure how fast the sea was melting the 37 - mile long ice tongue from underneath by drilling through the ice shelf.

Though the formation of the 700 square - kilometer iceberg could be a purely natural event — the result of a floating ice tongue growing too long and losing its balance on the sea — some scientists suspect that changes in Pine Island Glacier are due to changing conditions below.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

Continued melt of the first - year ice north of the tongue of multi-year ice in the Beaufort Sea is evident in the 16 August ice concentration map (Figure 1).