{"id":2495,"date":"2013-02-09T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2013-02-08T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T12:21:53","slug":"warming-ocean-could-melt-ice-faster-than-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Warming ocean could melt ice faster than thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warming air from climate change isn\u2019t the only thing that will speed ice melting near the poles \u2014 so will the warming water beneath the ice, a new study points out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Increased melting of ice in Greenland and parts of Antarctica has been reported as a consequence of global warming, potentially raising sea levels. But little attention has been paid to the impact of warmer water beneath the ice.<\/p>\n

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Now, Jianjun Yin of the University of Arizona and colleagues report the warming water could mean polar ice melting faster than had been expected. Their report was published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n

While melting floating ice won\u2019t raise sea level, ice flowing into the sea from glaciers often reaches the bottom, and grounded ice melted by warm water around it can produce added water to the sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cOcean warming is very important compared to atmospheric warming because water has a much larger heat capacity than air,\u201d Yin explained. \u201cIf you put an ice cube in a warm room, it will melt in several hours. But if you put an ice cube in a cup of warm water, it will disappear in just minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, Yin explained, if floating ice along the coastal areas melts it will allow the flow of glaciers to accelerate, bringing more ice into the seas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mean that both Greenland and Antarctica are probably going to melt faster than the scientific community previously thought,\u201d co-author Jonathan T. Overpeck said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Overpeck, co-director of the University of Arizona\u2019s Institute of the Environment, said: \u201cThis paper adds to the evidence that we could have sea level rise by the end of this century of around 1 meter and a good deal more in succeeding centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The subsurface ocean along the Greenland coast could warm as much as 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 Celsius) by 2100, the researchers reported. The warming along the coast of Antarctica would be somewhat less, they calculated, at 0.9 degree F (0.5 C)<\/p>\n

Randolph E. Schmid | Associated Press<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.bluechannel24.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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