Sentences with phrase «vulnerable part of the ice sheets»

Ice shelves are the most vulnerable part of the ice sheets.

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But now Jonathan Bamber at Bristol University, UK, has analysed which parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet are vulnerable.

Lacking many ice shelves to stem its flow, the glacier is particularly vulnerable to warming, part of the so - called weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheice shelves to stem its flow, the glacier is particularly vulnerable to warming, part of the so - called weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

This effect is particularly apparent in parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), long regarded as the more vulnerable part of the continent to climate change.

The study's claim that many current estimates are conservative is in part based on the argument that ice sheets may be more vulnerable than the IPCC has estimated, partly because of the effects of warming oceans.

When you think in terms of decades or centuries, the most vulnerable part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could raise global sea levels as much as 3 meters, Rignot told me.

But, vulnerable or not, the Antarctic ice sheet is part of the climate machine, and scientists from Europe, the US and New Zealand report in Nature that they think they have worked out how.