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- READING ASSESSMENT B ANTARCTICA. // Weekly Reader News - Edition 3;1/31/2003, Vol. 72 Issue 18, p2A
Reports that global warming might be the reason some ice shelves in Antarctica collapsed. Other speculated reason behind the collapse of the ice shelves in Antarctica; Information on the part of the Larsen Ice Shelf that collapsed; Questions for children after the discussion on ice shelf collapse.
- The Dynamic Response of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to Multiple-Century Climatic Warming. Huybrechts, Philippe; de Wolde, Jan // Journal of Climate;8/1/99, Vol. 12 Issue 8, p2169
New calculations were performed to investigate the combined response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to a range of climatic warming scenarios over the next millennium. Use was made of fully dynamic 3D thermomechanic ice sheet models, which were coupled to a two-dimensional climate...
- TALES FROM THE ICE. Janes, Patricia // Science World;11/12/2001, Vol. 58 Issue 5, p20
Explores the mysteries of global warming through analyses of ice from the depth of Antarctica. INSET: A SLICE OF ICE.
- Global warming studies. // Earth;Jun95, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p13
Reports on a Greenland ice cores study that suggests snow accumulation increases only slightly during warm weather. Assumption that higher temperatures cause more vaporation from the oceans; Rise of sea levels due to global warming.
- The big melt. // Current Events;9/17/99, Vol. 99 Issue 2, p1
Reports on the impact of global warming on polar ice caps. Average increase in temperature over 120 years; Rapid melting rate of ice sheets recorded by various satellites; Environmental impact of the greenhouse effect; Possibility that several coastal cities will submerge in the 21st century.
- Whale of a meltdown. O'Meara, Stephen James // Odyssey;Mar98, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p5
Focuses on the meltdown of polar ice in Antarctica. Impact of global warming; Evidence from whaling records.
- HOW MUCH ICE IS THERE? Perovich, Don; Richter-Menge, Jackie // Odyssey;Dec2002, Vol. 11 Issue 9, p11
Presents an analysis of the amount of ice in polar oceans, Greenland and Antarctica. Impact of melting of ice on the sea level; Information on different ice types; Comparison of ice stored in sea ice, glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica; Impact of global warming on melting of ice.
- Global warming cuts no ice. Redfern, Martin // New Scientist;9/25/93, Vol. 139 Issue 1892, p16
Discusses the possible melting of the Antarctic ice sheet in response to global warming. Absence of rapid changes in interglacial periods; Influence of currents that carry heat northwards from the Atlantic; Importance of the speed at which the ice is flowing; Research conducted by the British...
- Ice watch. Pearce, Fred // New Scientist;09/27/97, Vol. 155 Issue 2101, p16
Reports on the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA), a four-nation research project to measure what happens to solar heat hitting Arctic ice floes. Conflict in theories and models of solar heat in the Arctic; Role in the prediction of the development of global warming; Monitoring by...
