The Antarctic Ice Sheet–A Sleeping Giant?
The coldest, the windiest, the driest: the continent of Antarctica is a place of extremes. Located at the South Pole, Antarctica is covered by a vast ice sheet, millions of years old and in some areas more than 4,000 m thick. If all this ice were to melt, sea levels would rise by roughly 58 m. Despi...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/frym.2022.702643 2024-02-11T09:56:18+01:00 The Antarctic Ice Sheet–A Sleeping Giant? Winkelmann, Ricarda Nicola, Lena Notz, Dirk 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.702643 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2022.702643/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers for Young Minds volume 10 ISSN 2296-6846 journal-article 2022 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.702643 2024-01-26T09:58:42Z The coldest, the windiest, the driest: the continent of Antarctica is a place of extremes. Located at the South Pole, Antarctica is covered by a vast ice sheet, millions of years old and in some areas more than 4,000 m thick. If all this ice were to melt, sea levels would rise by roughly 58 m. Despite its massive size, the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable, losing more and more ice as the climate is warming. Most of this ice loss happens along the coast, where the ice sheet slowly flows into the ocean and forms ice shelves, which melt from below because of the comparably warmer ocean water. While the ice loss is still relatively slow right now, several processes could accelerate it and eventually even make it partly unstoppable. Wide-spread ice loss can only be prevented on the long-term if we manage to limit global warming to well below 2°C. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelves South pole South pole Frontiers (Publisher) Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic Frontiers for Young Minds 10 |
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The coldest, the windiest, the driest: the continent of Antarctica is a place of extremes. Located at the South Pole, Antarctica is covered by a vast ice sheet, millions of years old and in some areas more than 4,000 m thick. If all this ice were to melt, sea levels would rise by roughly 58 m. Despite its massive size, the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable, losing more and more ice as the climate is warming. Most of this ice loss happens along the coast, where the ice sheet slowly flows into the ocean and forms ice shelves, which melt from below because of the comparably warmer ocean water. While the ice loss is still relatively slow right now, several processes could accelerate it and eventually even make it partly unstoppable. Wide-spread ice loss can only be prevented on the long-term if we manage to limit global warming to well below 2°C. |
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