Sentences with phrase «when icebergs calve»

«There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,» says Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine.

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One way to assess the health of ice sheets is to look at their balance: when an ice sheet is in balance, the ice gained through snowfall equals the ice lost through melting and iceberg calving.

The last time a large iceberg calved from Antarctica was in 2002, when a chunk about half the size of the Larsen C iceberg calved from a different ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen B (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197).

«Coincidentally, when melting took off, the ice sheet began pulling back from the coast and the calving of icebergs diminished.

When that Antarctic iceberg calved, scientists mobilized quickly to learn as much as possible about the remaining ice.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.

While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global warming effects) will cause more iceberg calving, I'm sure it will come as quite a shock to those same folks when they discover that there's...

Here, ice is loss by melting rather than iceberg calving as when glaciers meet the sea.

Icebergs form when chunks of ice calve, or break off, from glaciers, ice shelves, or a larger iceberg.

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

For an ice sheet to have constant size, the mass of ice added from snowfall must equal the mass lost due to melting and calving (when icebergs break off).

In fact, up until 2005, around 52 % of this ice loss happened when glaciers calved to deliver icebergs.