Based on recent understanding of the north pole, this suggests that the south pole has a significant
water ice component, in addition to frozen carbon dioxide.
Not exact matches
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The
components of
water ice — hydrogen and oxygen atoms — have been around for much of the universe's history, but of course it's not
water till they're combined.
Ground
ice is not the major
component of Antarctica's vast reserves of frozen
water, but there are major expanses of ground
ice in the Dry Valleys, the Antarctic Peninsula and the continent's
ice - free islands.
But in December 2012, when the
ice moon was at its farthest point from the gas giant, they caught a pair of plumes bearing clear signs of oxygen and hydrogen — the
components of
water vapor — shooting from near the southern pole.
Sea level rise has two primary
components: the expansion in volume of seawater with increased temperature and the addition of
water in ocean basins from the melting of land - locked
ice, including Antarctica and Greenland.
Scientific knowledge input into process based models has much improved, reducing uncertainty of known science for some
components of sea - level rise (e.g. steric changes), but when considering other
components (e.g.
ice melt from
ice sheets, terrestrial
water contribution) science is still emerging, and uncertainties remain high.
While
water and carbs are the primary
components necessary for maximizing muscle fullness, optimal potassium and sodium intake is the
icing on the cake, so to speak.
Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various
components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone,
ice sheet mass,
water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?
On the real planet, there are multitudes of feedbacks that affect other greenhouse
components (
ice alebdo,
water vapour, clouds etc.) and so the true issue for climate sensitivity is what these feedbacks amount to.
Similarly I suspect all the
component parts of greater or lesser amounts of sea
ice need to be in place, from currents to jet stream to
water warmth etc
The Antarctic
ice sheet reached the coastline for the first time at ca. 33.6 Ma and became a driver of Antarctic circulation, which in turn affected global climate, causing increased latitudinal thermal gradients and a «spinning up» of the oceans that resulted in: (1) increased thermohaline circulation and erosional pulses of Northern
Component Water and Antarctic Bottom
Water; (2) increased deep - basin ventilation, which caused a decrease in oceanic residence time, a decrease in deep - ocean acidity, and a deepening of the calcite compensation depth (CCD); and (3) increased diatom diversity due to intensified upwelling.
A major consideration is the potential for a slowdown or stop of the AMOC in response to freshwater from the melting of the Greenland
Ice Sheet, which lowers the density of the surface
waters and puts the brakes on the thermohaline
component of the AMOC.
Since these are the two
components of
water there are plenty of both to measure in
ice.
IIUC sea level rise has three major
components, melt, thermal expansion and chunks of land
ice becoming sea
ice /
water.
Adding together the observed individual
components of sea level rise (thermal expansion of the ocean
water, loss of continental
ice from
ice sheets and mountain glaciers, terrestrial
water storage) now is in reasonable agreement with the observed total sea - level rise.