Where Glaciers Meet the Sea: How a warming ocean might speed the loss of Greenland's ice
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=95850

Cherie Winner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


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This video describes how the normal thousands-of-years-long balance of new ice creation and melting due to ocean currents has been disrupted recently by warmer ocean currents. As a result, glacier tongues that overhang the interface between ice and ocean are breaking off and falling into the ocean.


Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14)
Theme: Teach the Earth:Enhancing your Teaching:NGSS, Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Environmental Science, Teach the Earth:Incorporating Societal Issues:Climate Change, Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Atmospheric Science, Oceanography