AFRICA: Researchers have identified a sudden loss of ice in the Southern Antarctic Peninsula due to warm ocean waters.
A chain of glaciers along a coastline of 750 km were found to be shedding ice at an alarming rate of 55 trillion liters of water a year, since 2009. Researchers at University of Bristol used data from satellite imagery which showed substantial elevation changes in the peninsula.
“The fact that so many glaciers in such a large region suddenly started to lose ice came as a surprise to us. It shows a very fast response of the ice sheet: in just a few years the dynamic regime completely shifted,” lead author Dr. Bert Wouters.
Wouters and his team have ruled out air temperature or snowfall for the abrupt change. They westerly winds made vigorous due to global warming, is driving warm ocean waters towards glaciers.
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