Sentences with phrase «thinned by ocean currents»
Perhaps the ice had been thinned by ocean currents that deliver warm water from below, or by the wind, which could generate open water areas.
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Temperature observations are sparse around the hostile continent, but scientists recently modeled the ocean current knock - on effects of these wind changes, which have been caused by ozone thinning and by the buildup of greenhouse gases.
I suspect that larger tidal currents over shallow water mix ocean heat up to the surface to keep these waters covered by water or dangerously thin ice.
Hamish Pritchard prepares us, «In most places in Antarctica, we can't explain the ice - shelf thinning through melting of snow at the surface, so it has to be driven by warm ocean currents melting them from below.