West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Wikipedia
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the …
West Antarctic glacier loss appears unstoppable - NASA Science
2014年5月12日 · A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible …
Heterogeneous retreat and ice melt of Thwaites Glacier, West
2019年1月30日 · The glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, have undergone acceleration and grounding line retreat over the past few decades that may yield …
West Antarctic Ice Sheet - AntarcticGlaciers.org
2020年10月21日 · The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (the WAIS) is capable of rapid change as it is a marine ice sheet and therefore could be unstable. It has the potential to raise global sea level …
Fast Recession of a West Antarctic Glacier | Science - AAAS
1998年7月24日 · The fast recession of Pine Island Glacier, predicted to be a possible trigger for the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is attributed to enhanced basal melting of …
West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable
2014年5月12日 · A new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible …
West Antarctica is melting—and it’s our fault - National Geographic
2019年8月12日 · Pine Island Glacier, in West Antarctica, is retreating quickly. In 2014, this iceberg, 20 miles wide, broke off the tongue of the glacier and floated away. Other chunks of …
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Collapsing - Science | AAAS
2014年5月12日 · Earlier this week, two teams of scientists reported that the Thwaites Glacier, a keystone holding the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet together, is starting to collapse. In the …
West Antarctic glacier loss appears unstoppable | ScienceDaily
2014年5月12日 · A new study finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be in an irreversible state of decline, with nothing to stop the glaciers in this area …
TC - Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic …
2024年7月19日 · Using a new dataset of ice motion, we observed glacier acceleration on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The speed-up began around January 2021, but some …