Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf nearing collapse as cracks spread, not ...
2024年12月11日 · A recent study by a team of researchers from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) has found that the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf – the last floating extension of Thwaites into the ocean - is rapidly destabilising due to widening cracks, not melting from below as previously thought.
An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the …
2024年12月3日 · An ice shelf that broke apart seemingly unprovoked a couple of years ago had been steadily weakening for 30 years, largely unnoticed by scientists, researchers report December 3 in Nature ...
Satellite images reveal the total collapse of the Conger-Glenzer ice ...
2024年12月5日 · "While the storm didn't cause the collapse, its approach did hasten Conger-Glenzer's demise, with the 1,200 square kilometre ice shelf disintegrating over a few days before the height of the storm."
Doomsday Glacier: Scientists looked deep beneath Antarctic ice.
2024年9月20日 · Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse,...
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ …
2024年5月20日 · As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it’s causing “vigorous melting” underneath the glacier and could mean global sea level rise projections are being underestimated,...
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier ice shelf could collapse in 5 years ...
2021年12月13日 · New data suggest that a buttressing ice shelf helping to slow the Florida-sized glacier’s slide into the sea may collapse within five years.
Antarctica's Conger ice shelf was weakening for decades before collapse …
2024年12月4日 · An international team of oceanographers, Antarctic specialists and meteorologists has found evidence that the collapse of Antarctica's Conger ice shelf in 2022 was due to ice melting and...
Antarctic ice shelves are shattering. How fast will seas rise?
2022年3月28日 · An unexpected ice shelf collapse in East Antarctica, after temperatures spiked 70°F above normal, highlights bigger problems in the West, where one glacier could singlehandedly raise global...
Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica - NASA Earth Observatory
At the start of March 2022, the floating shelf fed by the Glenzer and Conger glaciers was still intact. By the middle of the month, it had fallen apart. This image pair (above), acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the shelf before and after it disintegrated.
This Antarctic glacier dramatically retreated. Then, its ice shelf ...
2023年11月29日 · Following that retreat, the tidewater glacier's ice shelf — the part of the glacier that floats on the surface of the ocean, but still remains anchored to land — completely collapsed.