NEW YORK: A group of scientists have observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously stable region of Antarctica.
Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, the team from the University of Bristol, UK found that the Southern Antarctic Peninsula showed no signs of change up to 2009. Around 2009, multiple glaciers along a vast coastal expanse, measuring some 750km in length, suddenly started to shed ice into the ocean at a nearly constant rate of 60 cubic km, or about 55 trillion litres of water, each year.
