Sentence examples for ice sheet instability from inspiring English sources

Hughes, T. The West Antarctic ice sheet: instability, disintegration, and initiation of ice ages.

Marine ice sheet instability is probably underway already in West Antarctica, but in the model, it wasn't enough.

Jones, R. S. et al. Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

Such abrupt acceleration in ice melt would have been caused by surface melt feedbacks and marine ice sheet instability.

One, dubbed 'marine ice sheet instability,' describes a situation in which a partially submerged glacier gets deeper and thicker as you move toward its center.

The rapidity of decline is a powerful illustration of the dominance of marine downdraw as a mechanism of ice sheet instability in West Antarctica26.

Ritz, C. et al. Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations.

Favier, L. et al. Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability.

When grounding zones of glaciers retreat onto such slopes, theoretical considerations and modelling results indicate that the retreat becomes unstable (marine ice-sheet instability) and thus accelerates5.

Large parts of the Antarctic ice sheet lying on bedrock below sea level may be vulnerable to marine-ice-sheet instability (MISI 1, a self-sustaining retreat of the grounding line triggered by oceanic or atmospheric changes.

"If we then find the rock bed dips away from the grounding line at the coast towards the interior, we could get something called marine ice-sheet instability," explained Dr Ferraccioli.