Sentences with phrase «shelf ice»

Satellite images reveal clue to the hidden cause of fractures in Antarctic shelf ice that are calving huge icebergs into the south polar seas.

Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.

«Icebergs: Mathematical model calculates the collapse of shelf ice.»

This refers to the area in which the ice still touches the ground and merges into floating shelf ice.

«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»

The scientists report in Geophysical Research Letters journal that they had discovered that although shelf ice could be expected to wear at the ocean edge, something else was happening in West Antarctica.

21 December, 2016 — Satellite images reveal clue to the hidden cause of fractures in Antarctic shelf ice that are calving huge icebergs into the south polar seas.

The ice rises up like a sheer cliff face — shelf ice is not only several thousand square kilometres large, it is also more than a hundred metres high in many places.

The station has a harbor, landing strips on the sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad.

LONDON, 21 December, 2016 — Scientists in the US have identified an ominous trend in the Southern Ocean − the creation of enormous icebergs as rifts develop in the shelf ice many miles inland.

Incidentally, the East Antarctic ice sheet which contains about 90 % of the Earth's fresh water is not melting... it is expanding, as is Antarctic shelf ice.

What isn't clear is whether this will make the shelf ice around the continent — and shelf ice slows the flow of glaciers from the polar hinterland — any less stable.

The shelf ice plays an important role in slowing the progress of south polar glaciers: remove the shelf ice and the glacier flow accelerates.