Sentences with phrase «warm water intrusion»

Finite - element modelling reveals that localized ice - shelf thinning, particularly in locations vulnerable to warm water intrusion, can have far - reaching impacts via tele - buttressing.

The continued reduction of warm water inflows and the dramatic reduction of lost ice mass in 2014, now suggest the glaciers are no longer adjusting to the previous warm water intrusions.

When warm water intrusions subsided, the glacier stabilized, and even began advancing between 1985 — 2002.

Before those warm water intrusions facilitated the loss of sea ice, air temperatures in the 80s and 90s reported a slight cooling trend contradicting CO2 theory.12

Not exact matches

«A lot of research has shown that intrusions of warm water are responsible for melting ice along the polar coastlines and that these intrusions are steered by the shape of the seafloor,» said Jamin Greenbaum, an oceanography and geology expert at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the new study, in an email.

How are changes in the the NAO and PDO modeled that can speed / slow the intrusion of warmer waters into the Arctic.

In summary, due to continental drift, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current blocked intrusions of warm tropical waters that warmed Antarctic and initiated the Antarctic Refrigerator Effect.

A strengthening ACC created a barrier inhibiting intrusions of warm tropical waters and minimizing both oceanic and atmospheric heat transport resulting in the Refrigerator Effect.

- What is the source of this putative, unprecedented intrusion of warm water into the Arctic sea areas, to include the precise play of global warming in the phenomenon?

Until this new Cosgrove Ice Shelf research, scientists had not found indicators of intrusion by warmer water underneath Antarctic ice shelves in the geological record of the Holocene epoch, said Frank Nitsche, a research scientist at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y..

Another example are the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) who are simultaneously facing extreme events such as typhoons, extreme storms and sea level rise that threatens to literally sink their islands, ocean acidification and warming which threaten their marine life and fisheries, and salt water intrusion into their fresh water sources and agricultural land.

These changes include melting and thinning of the coastal margins (30) and surging of outlet glaciers (29, 31), which may be contributed to by the intrusion of warming ocean waters (32).

A warm band of relatively constant temperature (18 - 22 °C) and salinity (36.0 - 36.2 psu) is observed near the bottom year - round just inshore of the shelf break, bounded by seasonally variable waters on the inshore side, and by fluctuating waters subject to cool - water upwelling events and warm Gulf Stream intrusions on the offshore side.

The deep shelf warming is initiated by onshore intrusions of relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), in density classes that access the shelf, as well as the reduction of the vertical mixing of heat.