Sentences with phrase «significant glacier acceleration»
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The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.
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A similar behaviour might be occurring on the Amundsen Sea sector of the west Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), where Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers have lost significant portions of their fringing ice shelves, and show signs of recent acceleration.
This suggests that glacial ice acceleration due to changes in seasonal meltwater flux tend to not make a significant overall change in outlet glacier ice velocities.
Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers have experienced significant flow acceleration since the 1970s.