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The Thwaites Ice Shelf is one of the biggest ice shelves in West Antarctica, though it is highly unstable and disintegrating rapidly. [2] [3] Since the 1980s, the Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the "Doomsday glacier", [4] has had a net loss of over 600 billion tons of ice, though pinning of the Thwaites Ice Shelf has served to slow the process. [5]
On this map, arrows mark warm water currents, which are the main factor in the projected demise of the Thwaites Glacier. [ 23 ] Between 1992 and 2017, Thwaites Glacier retreated at between 0.3 km (0.19 mi) and 0.8 km (0.50 mi) annually, depending on the sector, [ 42 ] and experienced a net loss of over 600 billion tons of ice as the result. [ 48 ]
The outlook for "Doomsday Glacier" just got gloomier. Scientists are warning the Antarctic Ice Sheet, known formally as the Thwaites Glacier, will deteriorate "further and faster" and that sea ...
The glacier is extremely remote, but scientists have surveyed the ice with radar, GPS, and seismic sensors. [10] [11] Most of the data about the glacier has been gathered from aerial and satellite surveys. [2] [6] Like the neighboring Thwaites Glacier, the Pine Island Glacier is a target of proposed engineering interventions to reduce ice loss ...
Although the glacier is replenished through snowfall, and glaciers generally accumulate more snow than they lose, the Thwaites Glacier is losing around 50 billion tons more ice than it is ...
Their findings give an alarming insight into future melting. Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier.” Their findings give an ...
Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse ...
With them in place, Thwaites Ice Shelf and Pine Island Ice Shelf would possibly regrow to a state they last had a century ago, thus stabilizing these glaciers. [ 75 ] [ 74 ] [ 71 ] To achieve this, the curtains would have to be placed at a depth of around 600 metres (0.37 miles) (to avoid damage from icebergs which would be regularly drifting ...