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The study projected a sea level rise of 1.3 m (4.3 ft) from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet if all the sea ice in the Amundsen Sea melted. [3] Measurements made by the British Antarctic Survey in 2005 showed that the ice discharge rate into the Amundsen Sea embayment was about 250 km 3 per year. Assuming a steady rate of discharge, this alone was ...
The Amundsen Glacier) is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km (4 to 6 nmi) wide and 150 km (80 nmi) It originates on the Antarctic Plateau where it drains the area to the south and west of Nilsen Plateau , then descends through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the MacDonald Nunataks .
Sif Island is an island in Pine Island Bay of the Amundsen Sea, in Antarctica. It is 1,150 feet (350 m) long and consists of potassium feldspar granite, mostly covered in ice. It was discovered in February 2020 after the Pine Island Glacier melted away from around it, and is named after Sif, an Æsir goddess associated with the Earth in Norse ...
The edge of the Thwaites Glacier extends into the Amundsen Sea in western Antarctica. NASAThis episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast is about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Thwaites is ...
[40] [41] Most ice losses occur at the Amundsen Sea Embayment [38] and its three most vulnerable glaciers – Thwaites Glacier, Pine Island Glacier and Smith Glacier. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Around 2005, they were thought to lose 60% more mass than what they have gained, and to contribute about 0.24 millimetres (0.0094 inches) per year to global sea ...
Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss. [3] The glacier ice streams flow west-northwest along the south side of the Hudson Mountains into Pine Island Bay , Amundsen Sea , Antarctica .
The first New Zealand woman to visit the mainland of Antarctica was Marie Darby. [21] 1969. First team of women scientists from the United States, led by Lois Jones, works on Antarctica. [13] First group of women to reach the pole were Pamela Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill. [22]
Amundsen Sea sea-ice variability, atmospheric circulation, and spatial variations in snow isotopic composition from new West Antarctic firn cores (2014) Alison Criscitiello is an American ice core scientist, National Geographic Explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society , and Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the ...