Sentences with phrase «tabular icebergs»
Joughin, I. & MacAyeal, D. R,» Calving of large tabular icebergs from ice shelf rift systems», Geophysical Research Letters, 32, 2005.
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Large tabular icebergs such as the one pictured are common in the waters near Antarctica.
Because of their large size, tabular icebergs often travel great distances, and their movement can affect ocean circulation, the formation of bottom water (the dense layer of water at the very bottom of the ocean) and sea ice, and the productivity of life - forms in their path.
Tabular icebergs can be more than 110 kilometers across and 300 meters high (with about 90 % of their height underwater).
Giant tabular icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay on January 11, 2008 in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
So far the disentegration of smaller ice shelves on the Antartic Peninsula has increased the number of smaller icebergs, but not the large tabular icebergs that can travel quite far north.
The deflecting effect of the Coriolis force also explains why large tabular icebergs linger near the coast for the first three or four years.
«In this way, even the large tabular icebergs end up in more northerly ocean regions with warmer water,» says Rackow.
«Unraveling the drivers of large iceberg movement: Tabular icebergs can drift through the Southern Ocean for eight years or more, and predominantly melt at the bottom.»
Healthy ice shelves tend to shed, or «calve,» large, tabular icebergs, sometimes larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Calving and Ice - Shelf Break - up Processes Investigated by Proxy: Antarctic Tabular Iceberg Evolution during Northward Drift.
When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, it will begin a journey, the course of which climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) can accurately predict.
As Gudmandsen points out, this large tabular iceberg could block ice transport at areas such as Hans Island.
Not exact matches
But when they do, the icebergs are typically tabular, or wide and flat topped.