Indeed, nature is unexpected. The glacier of Apocalypse is melting fast and scientists are worried about the consequences. According to research, the ice shelf that holds the glacier in place is becoming highly vulnerable as the ocean warms. See below for more details on this event.
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Studies have revealed that the rate of melting is still slow. However, deep “ladder” cracks in the ice are melting much faster. It is worth noting that climate change interferes a lot in this process.
What is the real impact of this glacier on a global level?
Every year, it dumps billions of tons of ice and contributes about 4% to sea level rise. Assuming a complete glacier collapse, the sea could rise 70 cm, and that's enough to devastate coastal communities.
Even if this event could take hundreds or thousands of years, there are possibilities that the ice shelf will disintegrate much sooner.
Details of the search performed
British scientists, after digging a hole almost 600 meters deep, added a robot similar to a lcefin and then images and records were captured on the temperature and salinity of the water, in addition to the currents oceanic.
Search results
Scientists have found that even though the glacier is retreating, the rate of melting under the mostly flat part of the shelf is still very low. The value has been estimated to be between 2 to 5.4 meters per year.
However, scientist Davis concluded that there is still rapid glacier retreat, so it appears that it doesn't take much to push the glacier off balance.
Another discovery was made
They identified an aquatic glacial landscape dominated by strange terraces and ladder-shaped crevasses. Furthermore, they found that melting was faster in these areas.
It was therefore concluded that melting along cracks and terraces could become the major trigger for ice shelf collapse.
new research
David Rounce offers new research that will help you better understand melting and then be able to model how melting occurs. glacier will change in the future.