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Bookmark or Share- How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday GlacierEvery rivet of the 95-meter-long ship shuddered with the impact. It was 1985, and the researchers aboard were sailing through one of the world’s most remote places: the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica.
- The 'Unstable' West Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Primer - NASA Jet Propulsion ...Climate Change. The 'Unstable' West Antarctic Ice Sheet: A Primer. May 12, 2014. Although the Amundsen Sea region is only a fraction of the whole West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the region contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 4 feet (1.2 meters). Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS.
- Amundsen Sea - WikipediaThe Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica. It lies between Cape Flying Fish (the northwestern tip of Thurston Island) to the east and Cape Dart on Siple Island to the west. Cape Flying Fish marks the boundary between the Amundsen Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea. West of Cape Dart there is no named ...
- Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over ...Ocean-driven melting of floating ice-shelves in the Amundsen Sea is currently the main process controlling Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise. Using a regional ocean model, we present...
- Classifying Oceanographic Structures in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica ...The remote and often ice-covered Amundsen Sea Embayment in Antarctica is important for transporting relatively warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) to the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, potentially accelerating its thinning and contribution to sea level rise.
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