Climate scienceGeologyGeophysicsThe article offers information regarding a study on the cause of the melting of Fimbul Ice Shelf in Antarctica said to be brought by warm surface water and warmer deeper water.doi:10.1038/487143eNoneNature ResearchNature...
Why is the Antarctic Ice Sheet melting? Climate Change in Antarctica With an average interior temperature of well below -40 C, and daytimes highs of -25 at the south pole is would seem that Antarctica is the last place we would worry about a change of 1 or 2 degrees in temperature. Ne...
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Ice shelves are disintegrating all over Antarctica and Greenland, but what scientists don’t yet know is how quickly we’ll experience the effects from these collapses. Even though the public may have been surprised by this collapse, the scientific community was not.I’ve been working in glacio...
“The amount of change that occurs within the firn layer due to warming and cooling is not equal in magnitude,” Megan Thompson-Munson said. “If we look at thousands or millions of years, we see asymmetric ice sheet behavior overall: Ice sheets can melt away quickly, but take a long ti...
“Antarctica is way too big to survey from the ground, and we can only truly understand the trends in its ice cover by looking at the continent from space,” said Andrew Shepherd, a professor of Earth observation at the University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment and the lead au...
The ice in the North Pole is melting. The author means the Polar bears are going to disappear forever. After reading the text a few times, and looking at the images the ice is melting more, the bears don’t have enough food. While answering the questions the students are ...
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The breakaway of A23a is thought to have been part of anatural "carving" process, but Mallet said icebergs are breaking off ice shelves at an increasing rate due to the climate crisis. "Antarctica has historically been quite a small contributor to s...
A conveyor belt of ocean water that loops the planet and regulates global temperatures could be heading for a tipping point.