Примери за използване на The ice sheets на Английски и техните преводи на Български
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At some point, the ice sheets melted and the planet began to rapidly warm.
But the vast majority of it- over 7 millioncubic miles(29.2 cubic km) is in the ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland.
Interestingly, however, despite the warming, the ice sheets are expanding in some regions.
At 2C, the ice sheets will begin their collapse, bringing, over centuries, 50 metres of sea-level rise.
But meanwhile, in the rest of the northern hemisphere, the ice sheets were going to have a very different impact.
By 12,000 years ago, the ice sheets had melted and the pingos were covered by an influx of warmer seawater from the Atlantic Ocean instead of ice. .
A paper published by a research team from Edinburgh University revealed that there are 91 volcanoes under the ice sheets in the west of Antarctica.
For example, the melting of the ice sheets and glaciers due to global warming may result in the eventual disappearance of polar climates.
Scientists can study Earth's climate as far back as 800,000 years by drilling core samples from deep underneath the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
When changes in the Earth's orbit alter the amount of heat that hits the Earth's surface, the ice sheets are particularly prone to melting.
In addition to the melting of the ice sheets and sea level rise, global warming is likely to lead to more extreme weather patterns, such as hurricanes and floods.
This region has lost water mass due to depletion of aquifers and drought, butthe loss is nowhere near as great as the change in the ice sheets.
A few months ago, I outlined the risks of a rapid collapse of the ice sheets in Antarctica in a story about Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica.
The ice sheets didn't just dribble out boulders and long lines of gravelly moraines, but dumped entire landmasses- Long Island and Cape Cod and Nantucket, among others- as they slowly swept along.”.
Greenland covers an area of 836,330 square miles and the ice sheets cover approximately 81% of the land area, which is equivalent to 677,855 square miles.
For 2100, the ice sheet contribution is very likely in the range of 7- 178cm but once you add in glaciers andice caps outside the ice sheets and thermal expansion of the seas, you tip well over two metres,” said Professor Bamber.
That number could grow to as much as 2 meters, or 6.6 feet,particularly if the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica melt entirely, said Helen Fricker, an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
For 2100, the ice sheet contribution is very likely in the range of seven to 178 centimeters(2.5 to 70 inches), but once you add in glaciers andice caps outside the ice sheets and thermal expansion of the seas, you tip well over two meters(6.5 feet),” Jonathan Bamber, the study's lead author, said.
In a Washington Post article, Dr. Ian Stirling of the Canadian Wildlife Service says that the ice sheets in that region are starting to crumble two and a half weeks earlier in the season than they did 30 years ago[source: Washington Post].
I hadn't realized it was based on concrete measurements of what the paleoclimates-- the ancient climates-- were,as recorded in the ice sheets, as recorded in deep ocean sediments, as recorded in lake sediments, tree rings, and a lot of other ways of measuring temperature.
Like icy fingers radiating outwards from the ice sheet, glaciers stretch out to the sea.
Look at the ice sheet.
Evidence of this drainage process comes from satellite measurements of the height of the ice sheet.
Spread the spice on the ice sheet on the bottom of the appliance.
Fossils reveal that every time the ice sheet grew, the Arizonan marshes expanded and the number of glyptodonts rose.
This will lead to a better understanding of the interactions between the ice sheet, the oceans, and what contribution this is making to sea-level rise.