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Measuring the speed of thaw

2013-09-20 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Researchers have known that ocean temperatures are rising but up until now haven't had any way of measuring the effects of this rise on Antarctica's glaciers. New research will now enable scientists to determine how quickly ice is melting under a rapidly changing glacier. Martin Truffer, a physics professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Tim Stanton, an oceanographer with the Naval Postgraduate School, were able to look underneath the Pine Island Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet...

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