News tagged with ice calving

Speed matters for ice-shelf breaking

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 27, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (13) | 4

It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn ...

Greenland ice sheet larger contributor to sea-level rise

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 12, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (52) | 8

The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes.

Icebergs break away from Antarctic iceshelf

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 28, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (16) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf - indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three ...

Freshwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet will more than double by the end of the century

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 12, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (11) | 2

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a recently released scientific paper by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Sebastian H. Mernild.

Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 01, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.

Birth of an iceberg

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 19, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

New images, acquired by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, show the breaking away of a giant iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Spanning 34 km in length by ...

What is really happening to the Greenland icecap?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 03, 2008 | 3.6 / 5 (14) | 0

The Greenland ice cap has been a focal point of recent climate change research because it is much more exposed to immediate global warming than the larger Antarctic ice sheet. Yet while the southern Greenland ice cap has ...

Satellite images show continued breakup of 2 of Greenland's largest glaciers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 21, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (23) | 70

Researchers monitoring daily satellite images here of Greenland's glaciers have discovered break-ups at two of the largest glaciers in the last month. They expect that part of the Northern hemisphere's longest ...

'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 2

An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday.

Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 04, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (26) | 0

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica ...

New Greenland ice sheet data will impact climate change models

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 11, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (12) | 2

A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing ...

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