The pristine world of Antarctica, a kingdom of ice and ... transporting warm water towards the underside of the ice shelves.
Antarctica's ice sheet was formed by thousands of years of accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast the ice gradually floats out onto the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves.
It's known that Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), a water mass that is up to 4°C above local freezing temperatures, is flowing beneath the ice shelves in West Antarctica and melting them from below.
Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40% faster than we thought, study warns Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting up to 40 per cent faster than we thought due to coastal ocean ...
This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica. These ice shelves are destabilizing rapidly and contributing to sea level rise.
A meteorite found during a 2012 expedition to the area near Szabo Bluff in the Transantarctic Mountains in Antarctica. (Dr. Katie Joy/Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program) Antarctica is home to ...
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Look out over Antarctica in the summer, and time seems frozen. The South Pole's midnight sun appears to hover in place, never dropping below the horizon for weeks between November and January. But the ...
The pristine world of Antarctica ... towards the underside of the ice shelves. This warm water would then interact with the ice, causing significant melting from below and weakening the overall ...
This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica. These ice shelves are destabilizing rapidly and contributing to sea level rise.