Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica’s ice masses
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 2 November, 2015
No comments yet
This item was filled under Climate
A full discharge of ice into the ocean is calculated to yield about 3 meters of sea-level rise. Recent studies indicated that this area of the ice continent is already losing stability, making it the first element in the climate system about to tip. The new publication for the first time shows the inevitable consequence of such an event. According to the computer simulations, a few decades of ocean warming can start an ice loss that continues for centuries or even millennia....