2025年1月5日 · Explaining the science of Antarctic glaciers. We look at ice streams, ice shelves, recent change, modern Antarctic glaciology and past glacial geology.

2021年6月16日 · This article looks at climate change and how it is affecting the glaciers in Antarctica. Glaciers and climate change are intimately linked, and the relationship is important because of the potential glaciers have to rise sea level.

2024年11月12日 · This section of the website highlights how glaciers interact with climate, and how changing climate is changing glaciers around the world today. Globally, glaciers are receding and shrinking in response to atmospheric warming.

2020年10月5日 · Mountain glaciation around the Antarctic Peninsula was initiated 37-34 Ma, coinciding with the opening of the Drake Passage, the separation of the Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current[11].

This page focuses on introducing the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Antarctica is actually composed of three ice sheets: the Antarctic Peninsula, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. You may also be interested in reading about the Patagonian Ice Sheet or the British-Irish Ice Sheet. Antarctica StoryMap Series

2022年8月18日 · Simplified cartoon of a tributary glacier feeding into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line (where the glacier begins to float). Ice shelves can be up to 2000 m thick, with a cliff edge that’s up to 100 m high.

2020年6月22日 · Antarctica has many different types of glacier. They range from enormous ice streams , arteries of fast flow that discharge the majority of the ice from the centre of the ice sheet to its edges[ 1 ], to slow-moving cold-based glaciers that are largely frozen to their beds[ 2 ].

2024年11月15日 · Why are glaciers important? Antarctic Ice Cores. Ice core basics; Ice core drilling; Ice cores on the Antarctic Peninsula; Changing Antarctica. Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance; Reconstructing climate from moss banks; Changes to Circumpolar Deep Water; Changing Antarctic Sea Ice; Glacier change in Antarctica; Shrinking ice shelves. Ice shelf ...

2020年6月22日 · These moraine types are common in mountain settings such as the European Alps, the Southern Alps of New Zeland (see the Mueller Glacier moraines below) and the Himalayas, where the high supply of rock debris from unstable valley sides, rapidly build up at …

2023年10月26日 · Glaciers in Antarctica are currently contributing little to global sea level rise. From 2003-2009, the global glacier mass budget was -259 ± 28 gigatonnes per year, which is equivalent to the combined ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland.