Polar MM5 Simulations of the Winter Climate of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at...

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......continent was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS). The objective is to...westerly flow. At the LGM, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, for instance, had spatial...distinct branches straddling the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The northern branch of the...

STUDY OFFERS PREVIEW OF ICE SHEET MELTING, RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 9, 2006 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

ice sheet

A Dictionary of Weather;      69 words ...ice sheet A massive, permanent ice dome, particularly the enormous areas glaciated...ice caps . During the Quaternary Period the great North American Laurentide ice sheet had a maximum extent of c. 13.4 million km 2 . See also POLAR ICE...

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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...