ICE SHEET

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ice sheet substantiv

înveliş de gheaţă; pod de gheaţă.

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The team gathered and analyzed around-the-clock measurements of the depth, salinity, and temperature of channel waters and their intersection with the coastal edge of Greenland's ice sheet.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

This process slows down the retreat of the ice sheet and ultimately the amount of melting.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

Researchers also found that the young ice sheet was much wetter than it is today, with meltwater from the surface flowing into a network of channels beneath the ice.

(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

The enormous ice sheet holds enough water to produce the equivalent of more than 9 feet (3 meters) of global sea level rise.

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

Today, the ice sheet covers 81% of Greenland and contains 8% of Earth's fresh water.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

WISSARD has provided a glimpse of the nature of microbial life that may lurk under more than 5 million square miles of ice sheet.

(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)

Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

Rapidly flowing ice generally in the bottom of an ice sheet and flowing from the middle to the ice sheet margin.

(Ice streams, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

As part of the NSF-funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, the researchers successfully drilled through the ice sheet in 2013 to reach Lake Whillans.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

Antarctica's ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States.

(Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to ice-sheet instability as much as predicted, National Science Foundation)

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