{"id":737561,"date":"2022-10-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737561"},"modified":"2022-10-12T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:00:00","slug":"seasonal-changes-in-antarctic-ice-sheet-flow-dynamics-detected-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737561","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/George_VI_Ice_Shelf_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"George VI Ice Shelf \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Certain estimates of Antarctica\u2019s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability.\u00a0In a <a href=\"https:\/\/tc.copernicus.org\/articles\/16\/3907\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new paper<\/a> published in <i>The Cryosphere<\/i>, researchers using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copernicus Sentinel-1 data<\/a>, found that glaciers feeding the George VI Ice Shelf speed up by approximately 15% during the Antarctic summer. This is the first time that such seasonal cycles have been detected on land ice flowing into ice shelves in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\/Seasonal_changes_in_Antarctic_ice_sheet_flow_dynamics_detected_for_the_first_time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first time<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain estimates of Antarctica\u2019s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability.\u00a0In a new paper published&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737562,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}