Sentences with phrase «warming ocean waters»

Ice shelf collapse could be triggered by the intrusion of warming ocean water beneath them or by surface melting.

Life in warmer ocean waters is also in jeopardy.

The causes for much of these changes has often been attributed to ocean forcing, with warm ocean waters melting these glaciers from below [8 - 11].

When cold, dense water of the polar regions sinks and flows beneath warmer ocean water.

Warming ocean water contributes to sea level rise and can strengthen hurricanes.

Sometimes these deep lows act to reduce extent by mixing warm ocean waters upwards, but at present there is no compelling evidence that this occurred in 2016.

The channel allows warm ocean water to reach the grounding line, leading to melting of the ice shelf from below.

Their findings suggested that warmer ocean water caused the channels.

But the evidence of a connection between warming ocean waters and greenhouse gas increases is compelling and consistent with theory and observations.

Solar heat or warm ocean waters fit the bill.

Not so long ago, it was thought warmer air would be the main cause of melting, but now it seems warming ocean waters are already having a significant effect.

The expansion of warming ocean water was blamed in a recent study for about half of sea level rise during the past decade.

That means that as these glaciers retreat, their fronts will remain in contact with warm ocean water that melts ice, rather than hitting higher ground anytime soon.

Form as cold, dense water of the polar regions sinks and flows beneath warmer ocean water.

No glacier has lost more water to the ocean in recent years: It is thinning by more than a meter each year as warm ocean water creeps in and melts it from underneath, hollowing out a vast ice shelf.

If these glaciers retreat at a similar rate to what they did in the past decade, 30 of them would disconnect from warm ocean waters by the end of the century with that kind of travel distance, it says.

A nice Cuban gold - link chain makes us think of Miami beaches, evenings spent with friends dancing and sipping frosty drinks and dipping our toes into warm ocean water.

But the future climate of West Antarctica is uncertain, and the physical factors that govern the collapse of outlet glaciers like Thwaites are poorly understood — in particular, a peculiar glacier instability mechanism likely triggered by warming ocean waters in a changing climate.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

Warm ocean waters off the coast moderates and keeps temperatures relatively constant throughout the year.

3) Form over warm ocean water near the equator; the warm water and warm moist air supplies its power.

To show you the effect of warm ocean waters on a storm system, I pulled a couple images today from the European's model (ECMWF) morning run.

He shows how warming ocean waters gave Hurricane Katrina the added strength to...

He shows how warming ocean waters gave Hurricane Katrina the added strength to blow right through Florida and on to New Orleans, and he documents worst - case scenarios for accelerated change.

Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.»

Antarctica's great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found.

Rancho Santana's 2,700 acres along 2 miles of shoreline boast a unique Isthmus climate that creates steady but varied patterns of coastal breezes, which when paired with year - round warm ocean waters make the beaches» surfing conditions some of the most coveted on the planet.

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

Warm ocean waters provide the fuel for hurricanes, and warm air causes the water to evaporate.

The mighty Southern Ocean Circumpolar Current prevents warmer ocean water from reaching the Antarctic sea ice zone, helping to isolate the continent.

But scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice from the bottom up.

The biggest stories of 2015 were tied to the sheer number of starving pinniped pups washing ashore on our beaches due to abnormally warm ocean waters and a lack of food sources for nursing mothers and their pups.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

From your link: «In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice.»

The perfect recipe for a strong hurricane includes warm ocean water and little wind shear.

Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.

As warm ocean water erodes the bottom of the ice shelf, the grounding line retreats inland.

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.

If there are more winters with reduced polynya extents, Khazendar points out, the cavity under Totten can fill with warmer ocean water rather than cold brine.

Now, new evidence from a marine sediment core from the deep Pacific points to warmer ocean waters around Antarctica (in sync with the Milankovitch cycle)-- not greenhouse gases — as the culprit behind the thawing of the last ice age.

Warm ocean water plays a significant role in melting glacial ice from below, and a better mapping of Antarctica's and Greenland's landforms beneath the ice suggests that ocean melting of the glacier fronts may play a more significant role than previously thought as the ice sheets retreat (under a global warming scenario).