Larsen Ice Shelf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of Hea...
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Changes in the extent and stability of Antarctic ice shelves prompted NSIDC to begin a monitoring program of the major ice streams and outlet glaciers along the Antarctic coast. This archive spans back to the late 1980's. We began by using data from the AVHRR Polar 1km data set and in 2001 switched to MODIS level 1B data.
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nsidc.org/data/iceshelves_images/
nsidc.org/data/iceshelves_images/
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Overview of recent changes in ice shelves ... Most ice shelves are fed by inland glaciers. Together, an ice shelf and the glaciers feeding it can form a stable system, with the forces of outflow and back pressure balanced. Warmer temperatures can destabilize this system by increasing glacier flow speed...
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nsidc.org/sotc/iceshelves.html
nsidc.org/sotc/iceshelves.html
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Antarctica's ice sheet was formed over thousands of years by accumulated and compacted snow. Along the coast, the ice gradually floats on the sea, forming massive ledges known as ice shelves, the ESA says. ... Several of these ice shelves, including seven in the past 20 years, have retreated and disintegrated.
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www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/03/antarctica.ice.shel...
www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/03/antarctica.ice.shelf/index.html
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Ice Shelves are permanent floating ice sheets that are attached to land and are constantly fed by glaciers. The largest one is the Ross Ice Shelf which is 600 - 3000 feet thick and about 600 miles long (the size of France).
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www.vims.edu/bio/microbial/NBPishelf.html
www.vims.edu/bio/microbial/NBPishelf.html
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Ice shelves are floating tongues of glaciers that fill bays in the Arctic and Antarctic. The shelves are attached to land and are much thicker than pack ice—freely floating masses of sea ice.
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061229-arctic-...
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061229-arctic-ice.html
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RealClimate: Guest contribution from Mauri S. Pelto Ice shelves are floating platforms of ice fed by mountain glaciers and ice sheets flowing from the land onto the ... Ice shelves are floating platforms of ice fed by mountain glaciers and ice sheets flowing from the land onto the ocean. The ice flows from the grounding...
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www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/06/ice-shel...
www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/06/ice-shelf-instability/
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Two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula known as the Larsen B and Wilkins are in "full retreat" and have lost nearly 3,000 square kilometers of their total area in the last year, say scientists in Colorado and the United Kingdom. ... "The radar images showed a large area of completely shattered ice,
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990409073216.htm
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In the past 20 years, seven ice shelves along the peninsula have retreated or come apart, including the spectacular 2002 breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf. The entire Wilkins shelf, before the recent breakups, covered about 6,180 square miles (16,000 square kilometers — about the size of Northern Ireland).
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www.livescience.com/environment/080710-ice-shelf.html
www.livescience.com/environment/080710-ice-shelf.html
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