Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 22:42
in Earth & Climate
Depicting a cause-and-effect scenario that spans thousands of miles, a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and his collaborators discovered that ocean waves originating along the Pacific coasts of North and South America impact Antarctic ice shelves and could play a role in their catastrophic collapse.