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 ......continent was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). Output from a tailored NCAR Community...resulting from the juxtaposition of the cold ice sheet and adjacent warm ice-free land surface...synoptic cyclones that track over the ice sheet, some of which produce copious liquid...

STUDY OFFERS PREVIEW OF ICE SHEET MELTING, RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 9, 2006 ;     787 words ......news release: The behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in northern Europe at the...In this analysis of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet that existed as recently as 10,000 years...increase, while the massive Greenland ice sheet - which exists in a slightly warmer setting...

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

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  March 9, 2006 ;     787 words ......Newswire) -- The behavior of a massive ice sheet that existed in northern Europe at the...In this analysis of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet that existed as recently as 10,000 years...increase, while the massive Greenland ice sheet - which exists in a slightly warmer setting...

ICE SHEET LITTLE THREAT TO SEA LEVEL

United Press International;  January 3, 2001 ;     569 words ...United Press International 01-03-2001 Ice sheet little threat to sea level GREENBELT...Environmentalists are worried that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting but Robert Binschaldler, a...Our previous best estimates that the ice sheet was adding 1 millimeter per year to global...

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

Science News;  September 26, 1992 ;     304 words ......immediate impact on the West Antarctic ice sheet, the area most prone to collapse. That...However, that same study indicates that the ice sheet behaves erratically, sometimes collapsing...temperatures. In an attempt to predict the ice sheet's behavior, Douglas R. MacAyeal of 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 ......problems a high-resolution (20 km) dynamic ice sheet model has been coupled to the third Hadley...the GCM drive ice mass changes in the ice sheet model that, in turn, can alter the future...the end of this period the Greenland ice sheet is almost completely ablated and has...

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 ......monthly snow accumulation for the Greenland Ice Sheet was derived from ECMWF forecasts [mainly...core accumulation datasets across the ice sheet and was found to be 95% of the observed...Central and northern interior parts of the ice sheet were found to be ~10%-30% too dry in...

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

The Hindustan Times;  April 18, 2008 ;     441 words ......the large-scale summer movements of the ice sheet. This was uncovered by researchers from...meltwater from the top of the Greenland ice sheet to its base. According to research by...of the broad, slow-moving areas of the ice sheet. "We found clear evidence that supraglacial...

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

The Washington Post;  March 3, 2006 ;   Juliet Eilperin;   787 words ...The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles...of water pouring annually from the ice sheet into the ocean -- equivalent to the...of even its smaller West Antarctic ice sheet could raise worldwide sea levels by...

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 8, 1999 ;     770 words ......with human-caused climate changes. ``The ice sheet has been retreating for the last 7,000...feet should the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt and flood the planet's densely populated...7,000 to 8,000 years. The edge of the ice sheet is shrinking at a rate of about 400 feet...

Scientists warn of ice sheet risk to sea levels.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  December 29, 2001 ;     184 words ......examines the likelihood of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsing. Some 13pc of all Antarctic ice is locked up in the ice sheet, which is anchored to rock. In past warm periods, the ice sheet has thinned and broken up into floating icebergs...

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

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  January 12, 2006 ;     634 words ......National Science Foundation's Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, or GISP2, involved 25...cycles were found to be related to ice sheet dynamics, ocean circulation and solar variability. Change of Greenland Ice Sheet The total volume of land-based ice...

Scientists demystify Antarctic Ice Sheet's stability puzzle

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

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...