Sentences with phrase «via calving»

This indicates the ice shelf as in the case of the Larsen B, breaking up in place via calving.

The loss of ice shelves — Mercer proposed — would allow the ice sheet to thin, grounding lines to retreat and the ice sheet to disintegrate via calving.

As the ice thins, the ice shelf connection with the pinpoints becomes more tenuous and more prone to retreat via calving.

The other point is that there are so few unrestricted outlets for the ice sheet, that it has to melt in place for the most part, which is a much slower process than losing volume via calving.

Not exact matches

The legs are modeled after a cat's, with three segments (think foot, calve, and thigh) moved via cables that connect to motors in the body.

The reduced resistive force at the calving front is then propagated up glacier via longitudinal extension in what R. Thomas calls a backforce reduction (Thomas, 2003 and 2004).

Retreating tidewater glaciers dominate the Alaskan sea level contribution due to their ability to efficiently transfer mass via iceberg calving [Arendt et al., 2002].

The thinning between the grounding line and the calving front is mainly via melting as the snowline is at 900 m.

A question we'd like to be able to answer well is whether the balance between accumulation of snow and ice and ablation (melting, sublimation, and loss of ice to the ocean via iceberg calving) is positive or negative.