{"675291":{"#nid":"675291","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Warm Water Seeping Under Antarctic Ice Sheets May Accelerate Melting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E reveals that Antarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat faster than previously thought. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Oxford\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ediscovered that\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAntarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat more quickly as warm seawater intrudes underneath them, leading to more melting and faster sea level rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir findings are built off a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.copernicus.org\/articles\/16\/451\/2022\/\u0022\u003Emodel\u003C\/a\u003E developed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E and other researchers. Robel\u2019s model found extensive intrusions could more than double the amount of ice loss from an ice sheet by adding heat from below and lubricating the flow of ice along the bedrock. \u201cThat positive feedback can cause there to be much more intrusion than we thought possible,\u201d says Robel.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWhether that will be a tipping point that will lead to unrestrained incursion of seawater under the ice sheet \u2013 that\u2019s probably a stretch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E published in \u003Cem\u003ENewScientist\u003C\/em\u003E reveals that Antarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat faster than previously thought. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Oxford\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ediscovered that\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAntarctica\u2019s melting ice sheets may retreat more quickly as warm seawater intrudes underneath them, leading to more melting and faster sea level rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir findings are built off a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tc.copernicus.org\/articles\/16\/451\/2022\/\u0022\u003Emodel\u003C\/a\u003E developed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-dr-alexander\u0022\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/a\u003E and other researchers. Robel\u2019s model found extensive intrusions could more than double the amount of ice loss from an ice sheet by adding heat from below and lubricating the flow of ice along the bedrock. \u201cThat positive feedback can cause there to be much more intrusion than we thought possible,\u201d says Robel.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWhether that will be a tipping point that will lead to unrestrained incursion of seawater under the ice sheet \u2013 that\u2019s probably a stretch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2024-07-01 19:34:52","changed_gmt":"2024-08-13 18:54:28","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"NewScientist","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436841-warm-water-seeping-under-antarctic-ice-sheets-may-accelerate-melting\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"791","name":"Global Warming"},{"id":"176758","name":"ice sheets"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"10399","name":"Antarctic"},{"id":"173050","name":"climate science"},{"id":"183637","name":"global change"},{"id":"193840","name":"(183637)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}