[ad_1] IMAGE: Pictured is a river of glacial meltwater that drained from the Greenland ice sheet. These rivers contain high amounts of suspended glacial meal as the ice cap acts like a … sight More Credit: Courtesy of Jon Hawkings TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Researchers who examined subglacial waters from both …
Read More »A long-distance connection: the polar climate affects the strength of the trade winds in the tropics
[ad_1] IMAGE: The blue ice that covers Lake Fryxell in the Transantarctic Mountains comes from the melted water of the glacier. View More Credit: Joe Mastroianni, National Science Foundation The impact of changes in sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific on the global climate has long been recognized. For …
Read More »The glacial ice of the Teton range may have persisted in a dormant state during the early Holocene warming
[ad_1] A continuous record of 10,000 years of fluctuations of alpine glaciers in the Teton Range of Wyoming suggests that some glacial ice in the western United States persisted in a reduced, essentially dormant state during periods of early Holocene warming. The findings challenge the paradigm that all Rocky Mountain …
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