Sentences with phrase «way under the ice shelf»

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.

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The team plans to apply for funding to return to the ice shelf with a more advanced robot that could go farther under the ice, all the way to the seafloor.

One 2004 NASA - led study found that most of the glaciers they were studying «flow into floating ice shelves over bedrock up to hundreds of meters deeper than previous estimates, providing exit routes for ice from further inland if ice - sheet collapse is under way.»

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

«Deep channels under the ice allow warm water to flow all the way to the grounding line, where the ice shelf meets the bedrock,» said Michael Studinger, a researcher with the mission.