Sentences with phrase «under ice shelve melting»

The estimates are quite variable because of the difficulty in measuring these things in a difficult part of the world and the complexity of the processes (ice berg calving; under ice shelve melting, snow blowing, under glacier melt etc.).

Not exact matches

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.

The ice under the front of the shelf is melting at a rate of about 3.3 feet (1 meter) per year, so the creatures must be burrowing to stay inside the ice, Rack said.

Jacobs, S.S., Jenkins, A., Giulivi, C.F. & Dutrieux, P. Stronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier ice shelf.

Jacobs SS, Jenkins A, Giulivi CF, Dutrieux P. Stronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier ice shelf.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.

Channelized melting drives thinning under a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf.

This out - flow of water from under the ice pulls in more deep water to melt more ice from the bottom of the ice shelf.

Their mission: find vulnerabilities where warmer (but still near freezing) water from the deep ocean may be seeping in under the ice shelf and melting it from below.

But this barrier may be ephemeral: simulations suggest that under some models, climate change may breach it within this century, rapidly melting the ice shelf base [Hellmer et al., 2012] and eventually leading to its collapse.

The scientists detected a similar high rate of basal melting under six small ice shelves along East Antarctica, a region not as well known because of a scarcity of measurements.

The large floating ice shelves are susceptible to bottom melting but, except for Petermann Glacier, we have no observations of the process or that more warm water is penetrating under these ice shelves.

«Only one - fifth of the heat under the ice shelf is actually converted to ice melt,» Bindschandler said.

Colder surface ocean waters decreased the rate of melting under the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in 2012.

Chloride = 31,000 p.p.m. (de-icing agents) trapped under the ice, is causing the bottom of the ice shelf to thaw, resulting in continuous thinning and acceleration of glacial melt (under water glacier cutting).

put this on the back shelf right next to global warming melted the ice cap and NYC is under a foot of water