Sentences with phrase «understanding subglacial»
Alley, R.B. Continuity comes first: Recent progress in understanding subglacial deformation.
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SALSA will gather data from permanent GPS stations to better understand subglacial water flow's influence on the larger ice sheet system and improve subglacial lake modeling through comparing our model's estimates against geochemical data.
Not exact matches
The results, and other subglacial analyses, will better equip geologists in understanding how the ice sheet responds to climatic changes.
This information would help Tulaczyk understand whether subglacial water lubricates the flow of ice, and whether it might play a role in the runaway acceleration of glaciers that has occurred in some parts of Antarctica.
«If we're successful in all three [projects] next year, we'll have a much better understanding of the subglacial environment.»
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the transport pathways of subglacial sediments into this embayment at present and during the last glacial period.
It is driven by poorly understood processes occurring at the ice - ocean interface, such as subglacial discharge into the ocean, turbulent plume dynamics, submarine melting, and iceberg calving.