{"id":24936,"date":"2024-02-23T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:46:38","slug":"study-finds-ice-melt-barriers-are-disappearing-at-twice-the-rate-they-were-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/23\/study-finds-ice-melt-barriers-are-disappearing-at-twice-the-rate-they-were-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds ice-melt barriers disappearing at twice the rate of 50 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Antarctica and cover an area equivalent to the size of Greenland. <\/span><span>The findings are part of the first-ever study of changes in the thickness of Antarctic ice shelves \u2013 extensions of land ice that float on the ocean \u2013 dating back to 1973. Previous observations date back only to 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used\u00a0<\/span><span>satellite images<\/span><span>\u00a0from the 50-year archive of the NASA\/United States Geographical Survey (USGS) Landsat program to track variations in the appearance of points on the ice surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Anchor points are formed when a portion of a floating ice sheet becomes anchored to a ridge on the\u00a0<\/span><span>ocean floor<\/span><span> , creating a visible bump on the otherwise smooth surface of the ice shelf. (<em>University of Edinburgh, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-02-ice-barriers-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctica and covers an area the size of Greenland. The findings are part of the first-ever study of changes in the thickness of Antarctic ice shelves \u2013 extensions of land ice that float on the ocean \u2013 dating back to 1973. Previous observations date back only to 1992. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used satellite imagery from the 50-year archive of the NASA\/United States Geographical Survey\u2019s Landsat program [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}