Sentence examples for an ice mass from inspiring English sources

The ASB is overlain by 2 4.5 km of ice and holds an ice mass equivalent to a 9-m sea level rise.

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin (WSB) of eastern Wilkes Land, which holds an ice mass equivalent to a 19-m sea level rise19 and drains through marginal glaciers (e.g., Cook and Ninnis ice streams) near George V Land, functions as an ice plug to support the marine-based WSB.

In contrast, it is generally considered that the EAIS, which encompasses a larger ice mass, has been in a state of mass equilibrium or has had a slightly positive mass balance over the past two decades5,12.

At the glacial period's peak, a giant ice mass called the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered much of northern North America, extending as far south as Long Island, New York.

A dome shaped ice mass covering a highland area that is considerably smaller in extent than an ice sheet.

Individual grid values were then summed to obtain an estimate of volume loss from the glaciological basin (km3) and multiplied by 0.9 to obtain an estimate of ice mass loss (Gt).

Bluer areas, near Greenland, reflect a loss of ice mass, counterintuitively* resulting in a sea level drop.

So living closer to a large melting ice mass may be safer than would intuitively make sense.

Analyzing geologic data and computer models, the team of researchers used terrestrial and marine records to reconstruct the demise of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a land-based ice mass that covered much of North America, until its ultimate disappearance at around 6,500 years ago.

Each layer of snow slowly builds a thick and dense ice mass.

A decrease in accreted ice mass and thickness is observed with the increase of airfoil geometric size.