Sentences with phrase «wide surface melt»

A rare, near - ice sheet - wide surface melt event melted 97 % of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet on July 11 — 12.

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The impact melted the surface that it hit and gouged out a 77 - kilometre - wide basin known as King crater.

Box pointed to nearly ice - sheet - wide melting on Greenland, with extensive surface melting documented for first time at the highest elevations of ice sheet, and the longest melt season since satellite observations began in 1979.

I predict greater surface salinity, much earlier melt, great adiabatic events at sea surface to air interface, wide early thousand lead expansion events coinciding with at start clear than very cloudy air, a surprising near ice death experience at the North Pole because the North Greenland subduction zone is already very fluid.

The study's major achievement is the addition of two key ice melting processes left out of all Antarctica - wide models to this point: Meltwater ponding and crevasse formation on the surface of ice sheets — so called «hydrofracturing» — and the tendency of ice sheets that are grounded on marine bedrock to rapidly retreat.

Ablation stakes made of plywood strips 10 - cm wide and marked with alternating black and white 10 - cm squares are planted in the ice near the buoy to indicate visually the amount of surface melting as the summer proceeds.

A second research team reporting a companion study in the same issue of Nature identified one meltwater system with an ocean outflow that ended in a 130 - metre wide waterfall, big enough to drain the entire surface melt in a matter of days.

identified one meltwater system with an ocean outflow that ended in a 130 - metre wide waterfall, big enough to drain the entire surface melt in a matter of days.