Antarctic Icebergs Collision with South Georgia

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Mega-iceberg from Antarctica on collision course with South Georgia: Harbinger of things to come?

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Ice caps grow as snow falls on the top and gravity pulls them slowly towards the sea.

They lose large volumes of ice via melting and calving of icebergs.

But as the air and ocean around the south pole have warmed over the past few decades , icebergs calve off faster and more often.

As the meltwater on top weakens the ice, and the warmer ocean makes the ice shelves thinner.

As a result, enormous ice blocks can break off from the shelves in a short amount of time.

EMBRACER climate research programme offers a job position for a PhD student to investigate these so-called 'deglaciation' phases.

By following icebergs in computer simulations, the study will identify how much meltwater the icebergs lost in the Southern Ocean during the melting phases, and how that changed conditions in the ocean.

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