Sentences with phrase «top of the ice sheet»

Some previous theories have attributed this darkening to water on top of the ice sheet — often seen as strikingly sapphire blue ponds, rivers and lakes.

The researchers hoped to study the waterways at the top of the ice sheet, which transport water across the ice or funnel it down towards the bedrock.

Some previous theories have attributed this darkening to water on top of the ice sheet — often seen

For instance, we now know that the Greenland ice sheet is melting, and that as it melts the height of the surface of the top of the ice sheet will reduce increasing the temperature there.

Climate change has had an impact on the top of the ice sheet.

The extent of this melt is not in itself significant — just millimetres on top of an ice sheet that is 3.5 kilometres thick at its deepest point, most of which soon refreezes.

Bindschandler and his team observed waves on the top of the ice sheets that were between 33 and 48 feet (10 and 15 meters) tall; when they correlated those to waves on the bottom of the ice shelf, there was a noticeable difference.