Sea ice also provides a buttressing effect preventing land ice from falling into the ocean-without it glaciers on Greenland and other arctic land masses would decrease more quickly, resulting in increased sea level rise.
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The special needs skating lessons were noticed by B . L . Wylie, the Parent Education Coordinator for the U . S . Figure Skating instructional program at Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center.
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Huge swings in climate were routine during ice ages, but scientists have believed until now that they disappeared with the periodic disappearances of land ice in Europe and North America, ushering in stable interglacial periods.
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The programme encompasses studies of the global atmosphere, oceans, sea ice, land ice ( such as glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets ), and the land surface which together constitute the Earth's physical climate system.
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Internal feedback processes may also potentially occur, as land ice melts and causes eustatic sea level rise, and also potentially induces earthquakes as a result of isostatic rebound, which further acts to disrupt glaciers, ice shelves, etc.
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It revealed that American Ice had secured an effective monopoly over the supply of its product to the cityit was the only company with rights to land ice at New York piersand would have dramatically increased its profits at the new price.
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NASA reports that sea ice in the Arctic has been declining at a rate of 9 % per decade for the past 30 years, whereas Antarctica has been losing land ice at a rate of more than 100 km 3 per year since 2002.
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The Garfield Range is located at Lake Hazen which is the world's largest lake north of the Arctic Circle by volume and acts as a barrier between the lake and the Grant Land ice cap and nunataks of the United States Range to the north.
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The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr . Keith A . Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992 93 and 1994 95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.
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The report cites the decision by the Master of the vessel to enter the ice field based on his knowledge and information available at the time as the primary reason why " Explorer " suffered the casualty . " He was under the mistaken impression that he was encountering first year ice when in fact, as the Chilean Navy Report indicated, was much harder land ice ."
