Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Antarctic Ice Facing Changes By Fast-Flowing Glaciers

redOrbit: A new study found that fast-flowing and narrow glaciers could trigger massive changes in the Antarctic ice sheet, inevitably adding sea-level rise and ice-sheet decay. The team tested high-resolution model simulations against reconstructions of the Antarctic ice sheet from 20,000 years ago. Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they said they used a new model during their study, capable of resolving responses to ice-streams and other fine-scale dynamic...

URL: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112697118/glaciers-changes-antarctica-091912/
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