Sentence examples similar to decay of ice sheets from inspiring English sources

One persistent issue is the dynamics of ice sheets.

One source of information is numerical modelling of ice sheets.

de, Q. & Robin, G. Surface topography of ice sheets.

One example is the melting of ice sheets.

Ice streams are fed by tributaries that can extend deep into the heart of ice sheets.

Within the terminal moraines the decay of the ice sheets typically left behind sheets of till (ground moraine).

Following the decay of these ice sheets the Dogger Bank entered a period of significant climatic and environmental flux which saw a terrestrial landscape being progressively inundated as sea levels rose during the Holocene.

The second challenge is that ice sheet modeling is still in its infancy, owing in part to the lack of observations of ice sheet decay, and therefore cannot accurately depict projected melt.

The difficulties in estimating the Earth system sensitivity, the paper points out, are due to "the lack of palaeo-analogues for the present-day anthropogenic forcing" as well as because "current models are unable to adequately simulate the physics of ice sheet decay and certain aspects of the natural carbon and nitrogen cycles".

Modeling of ice sheet changes is still in early stages.

One interesting point is the basis on which they dismiss the possibility of a catastrophic decay of the ice sheet.