Weddell Sea

Type: Province

Name: Weddell Sea

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Scientists discover new site of potential instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

The newly discovered basin covers 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 square miles), nearly the size of New Jersey, and is well below sea level, nearly 2 kilometers (about 1.2 miles) deep in places.Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Terra Daily ]

Entities: University of Edinburgh, University of Texas At Austin, Geophysics

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Scientific American

Scientists discover Antarctic ice shelf at risk of collapse

Scientists have discovered a sub-glacial basin in the Antarctica region which they believe is due for imminent collapse. The previously unknown area is the size of New Jersey (7,770 sq miles).The American and British science team discovered the presence ... [ Published May 15 2012 by Digital Journal ]

Entities: Scientific American, University of Edinburgh, Octopus

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 3 Documents

Climate Scientists Discover New Weak Point of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions are made by climate researchers of the Alfred ... [ Published May 14 2012 by Cutting Edge News ]

Entities: Alfred Wegener, Climate, The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

University of Texas At Austin

Newly Found Sub-Glacial Basin at Higher Risk of Collapsing

As per recent findings, it has been revealed that scientists have been able to discover a mile-deep sub glacial basin, lying beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet near the Weddell Sea. It has been proposed that the till now unknown site, is termed to be of ... [ Published May 14 2012 by French Tribune ]

Entities: Don Blankenship, University of Texas At Austin, Geophysics

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Robert Bindschadler

The ice melt cometh

A variety of news outlets has covered two papers published this week indicating that the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica might be susceptible to faster-than-expected ice loss, but most went astray in one way or another.The most troublesome of the bunch ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Columbia Journalism Review ]

Entities: Robert Bindschadler, Climate, Michael Lemonick, Alfred Wegener

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 2 Documents

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Vast Antarctic ice sheet 'in play' with global warming

Scientists have long focused on Antarcticas smaller ice sheet as being vulnerable to warming, but two new studies project that part of the continent's much larger ice sheet is also at risk -- and that ice now held back on land there could add to sea level ... [ Published May 10 2012 by MSNBC ]

Entities: Alfred Wegener, Global Warming/Climate Change, Erosion, University of Edinburgh, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

European Union

10 million euro from the European Union for a climate scientists report

Home> EU Funding news > NewsThe research is financed in the framework of the EU’s seventh competitiveness and innovation framework programme (FP7).The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, a major Antarctic ice shelf in the Weddell Sea, may start to melt ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Welcomeurope.com ]

Entities: European Union, Climate, The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change, Alfred Wegener

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 13 Documents

Big Antarctic ice sheet appears doomed

Enlarge Warm ocean currents may threaten the stability of Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea if global temperatures continue to rise.Ralph Timmermann, Alfred Wegener InstituteA massive slab of floating ice that juts from Antarctica’s ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Science News Online ]

Entities: Alfred Wegener, Pine Island Glacier, Radio Waves

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Antarctic Octopus Provides Clues To Ice Sheet...

A joint team of UK and Australian researchers has found that two separate groups of Antarctic octopuses, from the Ross and Weddell seas on different sides of the continent, are almost genetically identical. This suggests that the two seas, which are now ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Red Orbit ]

Entities: Octopus, Patagonian Toothfish, National University of Ireland, Galway, Alfred Wegener, Global Warming/Climate Change

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 9 Documents

Scientists discover new site of potential instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

IMAGE: The bottom image shows a radar image of bedrock elevation reveals the new sub-glacial basin (purple and blue regions). The basin is divided into two components (A and B) and...Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of ... [ Published May 10 2012 by EurekAlert! ]

Entities: EurekAlert, University of Edinburgh, University of Texas At Austin, Geophysics

First Reported Apr 25 2012 - Updated Apr 25 2012 - 1 Documents

General Tours Offers Savings on Antarctica Trips

General Tours World Traveler is offering $450 per person savings when guests pay-in-full at time of booking before May 31 for any of its Antarctic departures through March 2013. General Tours offers four Antarctica trips, including the two-week Glaciers ... [ Published Apr 25 2012 by Travel Pulse ]

Entities: MV Ushuaia, United States Government, Buenos Aires

First Reported Apr 23 2012 - Updated Apr 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Antarctic researchers answer your questions – live ship-to-land Q

On Tuesday, 1-2pm, scientists onboard a British Antarctic Survey vessel will respond to readers' questions about their research over the past month and what it may reveal about the mechanics of the Earth's weather and climate systemsFor the past month ... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Sediment, Climate, James Clark Ross, Claire Allen

Quotes

...in a region of Antarctica that at present we know little about," said Professor Martin Siegert of the University of Edinburgh, who led the project. "The area is on the brink of change, but it is impossible to predict what the impact of this change might be without further work enabling better understanding of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet behaves."

Scientists discover new site of potential instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Terra Daily - May 21 2012]

...consequences of global warming for Antarctica would be noticeable primarily in the Amundsen Sea and therefore in the western part of Antarctica. "The Weddell Sea was not really on the screen because we all thought that unlike the Amundsen Sea its warm waters would not be able to reach the ice shelves. But we found a mechanism which drives warm water towards the coast with an enormous impact on the Fichner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the coming decades" , says Dr. Hartmut Hellmer, oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute and lead author of the study

Climate Scientists Discover New Weak Point of the Antarctic Ice Sheet [Cutting Edge News - May 14 2012]

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New threat to Antarctic ice shelf emerges [ Published May 14 2012 by Deutsche Welle ]
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New Weakness in Antarctic Ice Sheet Discovered [ Published May 09 2012 by LiveScience.com ]
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The Bad News Continues to Flow About Antarctica... [ Published May 10 2012 by Think Progress ] by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central It’s just two weeks since a paper in Nature flagged an ominous thinning of ice shelves along parts of the Antarctic coast lying due south of the Pacific Ocean. The ice appears to be melting from below, ...