| manuchandel | Date: Saturday, 13-August-2022, 6:06 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Antarctica's ice shelves could be melting faster than we thought
by California Institute of Technology
A new model developed by Caltech and JPL researchers suggests that Antarctica's ice shelves may be melting at an accelerated rate, which could eventually contribute to more rapid sea level rise. The model accounts for an often-overlooked narrow ocean current along the Antarctic coast and simulates how rapidly flowing freshwater, melted from the ice shelves, can trap dense warm ocean water at the base of the ice, causing it to warm and melt even more.
The study was conducted in the laboratory of Andy Thompson, professor of environmental science and engineering, and appears in the journal Science Advances on August 12.
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https://phys.org/news....ht.html
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