Meltwater can cut through Greenland ice sheet all the way to the bed

The Hindustan Times;  April 18, 2008 ;     441 words ......areas of the ice sheet. "We found clear...that form on the surface in summer--can...crack through the ice sheet in a process...melt ice on the surface. Past satellite...meltwater from the surface of Greenland's ice sheet might be lubricating...

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

Journal of Climate;  August 15, 2005 ;   Bromwich, David H; Toracinta, E Richard; Oglesby, Robert J; Fastook, James L; Hughes, Terence J;   787 words ......juxtaposition of the cold ice sheet and adjacent warm ice-free land surface. This sharp thermal...juxtaposition of cold surface temperatures over the ice sheet and relatively...adjacent ice-free surface enhances the...the southern ice sheet margin, ...

STUDY OFFERS PREVIEW OF ICE SHEET MELTING, RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 9, 2006 ;     787 words ......following news release: The behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in northern Europe at the end of the...effects, or not. In this analysis of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet that existed as recently as 10,000 years ago, the...actually increase, while the massive Greenland ice sheet ...

Study Offers Preview of Ice Sheet Melting, Rapid Climate Changes.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  March 9, 2006 ;     787 words ......AScribe Newswire) -- The behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in northern Europe at the end of the...effects, or not. In this analysis of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet that existed as recently as 10,000 years ago, the...actually increase, while the massive Greenland ice sheet - ...

ICE SHEET LITTLE THREAT TO SEA LEVEL

United Press International;  January 3, 2001 ;     569 words ......Colorado. "The disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would be one of the big events because it could...dramatically," he said. The retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been a particular concern of scientists because...a land mass covered by ice, the West Antarctic ice ...

NASA MISSION CHECKS HEALTH OF GREENLAND'S ICE SHEET AND GLACIERS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 30, 2007 ;     697 words ......of its glaciers and ice sheet. About 82 percent...made up of a giant ice sheet. During the Arctic...areas of the island's ice sheet as well as its glaciers...has shown that the ice sheet and glaciers have...of a mile above the surface." It has been ...

Antarctic ice: slippin' and slidin.' (ice sheet movements found irregular...

Science News;  September 26, 1992 ;     304 words ......study indicates that the ice sheet behaves erratically, sometimes...attempt to predict the ice sheet's behavior, Douglas R...model using data about the ice sheet's underpinnings. He ran...the impact of changes in surface temperatures and sea levels...shocked to find that the ...

Elimination of the Greenland Ice Sheet in a High CO2 Climate

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2005 ;   Ridley, J K; Huybrechts, P; Gregory, J M; Lowe, J A;   787 words ......mass changes in the ice sheet model that, in turn...changes in orography, surface albedo, and freshwater...as to whether the ice sheet is currently in...number of ways. The surface mass balance has...temporal extent of surface melt, and airborne...thinning in the ice ...

New sea level fears as satellite discovers that the Antarctic ice sheet is...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 3, 2006 ;     217 words ...The Antarctic ice sheet, which holds 70% of the world's fresh...orbiting satellites have shown that the ice sheet is slowly melting away. The volume...the loss is from the West Antarctic ice sheet, which is eight times smaller than...

Observed and Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet Snow Accumulation, 1958-2003, and...

Journal of Climate;  February 1, 2006 ;   Hanna, Edward; McConnell, Joe; Das, Sarah; Cappelen, John; Stephens, Ag;   787 words ......Meteorologists and ice sheet modelers have eagerly...parts of the earth's surface, where, for example...to the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Variations...critical for governing surface mass balance of...processes affecting ice sheet mass balance and...mass-loss process, ...

Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly; New Study Warns Of Rising Sea...

The Washington Post;  March 3, 2006 ;   Juliet Eilperin;   787 words ......disappearance of even its smaller West Antarctic ice sheet could raise worldwide sea levels by an estimated 20 feet. "The ice sheet is losing mass at a significant rate," said Isabella...University glaciologist who has studied the Antarctic ice sheet but was not involved in the new ...

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 8, 1999 ;     770 words ......the past 7,000 to 8,000 years. The edge of the ice sheet is shrinking at a rate of about 400 feet per year. But the ice sheet's melt-off began thousands of years ago, they found...climate. Conway emphasized that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could melt faster if ocean temperatures ...

The Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, or GISP2 National Science Foundation...

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  January 12, 2006 ;     634 words ......Foundation's Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, or GISP2, involved...found to be related to ice sheet dynamics, ocean circulation...variability. Change of Greenland Ice Sheet The total volume of land-bas...the 1990s. The Greenland Ice Sheet dominates land ice in ...

Scientists demystify Antarctic Ice Sheet's stability puzzle

The Hindustan Times;  March 7, 2007 ;     620 words ......miles beneath the Antarctic ice sheet's surface. The team was able to link...interior is a key piece of the ice sheet stability puzzle. Given the...of the huge East Antarctic Ice Sheet, an area larger than the continental...an American-led Antarctic ice sheet ...

ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE: GREENLAND ICE SHEET SHRINKING

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 4, 1999 ;   Danielle Knight;   787 words ......IPS) - Large areas of the Greenland ice sheet appear to be thinning by as much as one...reduced thickness of the entire Greenland ice sheet between 1993 and 1998, the magazine reported...that "above 2000 meters elevation, the ice sheet is in balance but thinning predominates...