STUDY OFFERS PREVIEW OF ICE SHEET MELTING, RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in...preview of how major ice sheets in Greenland and...University, shows that ice sheets can react quite...the Scandinavian Ice Sheet that existed as...study of ancient ice sheets. "Our new analysis...ancient ...

The mutual interaction between continental-scale ice sheets and...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......The great continental ice sheets of the Pleistocene...and melting over the ice sheets themselves. A simplified...threedimensional coupled ice sheet-stationary wave model...order to understand the ice sheet's response to the circulation...climate simulations, the ...

NASA PROVIDES NEW PERSPECTIVES ON EARTH'S CHANGING ICE SHEETS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mass balance of the ice sheets and to determine...mass balance of the ice sheet, which is the difference...behavior of the ice sheets, and collectively...they reveal an ice sheet that is shrinking...The borders of the ice sheets are melting in ...

LGM Summer Climate on the Southern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Wet...

Journal of Climate;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). Output from...include continental ice sheets, appropriate orbital...juxtaposition of the cold ice sheet and adjacent warm...is drawn up the ice sheet slope. Composites...Hemisphere continental ice sheets represented ...

Elimination of the Greenland Ice Sheet in a High CO2 Climate

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......size of polar ice sheets. Calculating...km) dynamic ice sheet model has been...the Greenland ice sheet accompanied...loss of the ice sheets will lead to...effect of the ice sheet meltwater. The large ice sheets can take millennia...

Smaller ice sheets pose big threat to rising sea global

Post-Tribune (IN);  July 22, 2007 ;     598 words ......behavior of the major ice sheets that cover Greenland...processes that regulate ice sheet behavior. "The question...If either of these ice sheets were to disintegrate...continent-spanning sheet of ice, which spreads out...some progress in ice sheet science over ...

Scientists sound alarm over melting Antarctic ice sheets ; AAAS CONFERENCE...

The Independent - London;  February 16, 2007 ;     608 words ......which parts of the ice sheets slide from the land...determines how the ice sheet responds to climate...elevation of the ice sheets, which found that...the base of the ice sheet and the rock beneath...many regions of the ice sheet either rose or ...

ODP pursues history of Antarctic ice sheet

Sea Technology;  May 1, 1998 ;     244 words ......development of the antarctic ice sheet and its consequences for Earth's climate. The antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest, is...through glacial cycles. "The ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere...of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets changed sea level...program ...

Crack! A lake atop the Greenland Ice Sheet disappears!(RESEARCH NEWS)

Oceanus;  September 1, 2008 ;     544 words ......2006, a 2.2-square-mile lake atop the Greenland Ice Sheet sprung a leak. Like a draining bathtub, the...through a crack that reached the base of the ice sheet 3,215 feet below. Most of the 11.6 billion gallons...form each spring and summer atop the Greenland Ice Sheet as sunlight ...

The dynamic response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to...

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to a range of climatic...thermomechanic ice sheet models, which were...of the Antarctic ice sheet but would be negligible...for the Greenland ice sheet. On that timescale...Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets would roughly ...

Antarctic ice sheet may be getting thicker again

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  January 27, 2002 ;     319 words ...PHILADELPHIA - After two decades of concern that the melting ice sheet in Antarctica may fall into the ocean and create...The satellite used radar to monitor changes in the ice sheet, which is two-thirds of a mile thick and stretches...is more than half the size of the United States. Ice ...

ANTARCTIC MELT PRECEDED GLOBAL WARMING ICE SHEET SHRINKING FOR UP TO 8,000...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ......changes. ``The ice sheet has been retreating...West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt and flood...The edge of the ice sheet is shrinking at...year. But the ice sheet's melt-off began...West Antarctic Ice Sheet could melt faster...rth's other massive ice ...

As temperatures rise the Antarctic ice sheet grows.

R & D;  February 1, 1990 ;     358 words ......melting the Antarctic ice sheets, they are causing them...ice going [into the ice sheet] than coming out of...some melting of the ice sheets. What appears to be...getting a better feel for ice sheet dynamics. The thinking now is that the Antarctic ice ...

New Antarctic find backs safe stand on ice sheets

The Press;  February 17, 2007 ;     401 words ......discovery about the Antarctic ice sheets has bolstered the cautious...the future of the Antarctic ice sheet, home of 90 per cent of the...Science journal showed that the ice sheet behaved differently than previously...rivers and lakes under the ice sheet changes far ...

ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE: GREENLAND ICE SHEET SHRINKING

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......areas of the Greenland ice sheet appear to be thinning...the entire Greenland ice sheet between 1993 and 1998...meters elevation, the ice sheet is in balance but thinning...the west side of the ice sheet some areas grew, while...southern sides of the ice ...