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Stephan

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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #50 on: February 09, 2019, 06:24:17 PM »
You were almost right with your prediction.
I just checked Amery Ice Shelf by EOSDIS and all the upper "lakes" changed their colour from blue to grey. They probably froze over during the last days.
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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #51 on: February 19, 2019, 08:04:15 AM »
Re: Amery Ice Shelf

That one giant melt pond and the surrounding smaller ponds just froze too i think. Looking forward to seeing the next Sentinel pics.

Stephan, how about an own thread for Amery too?

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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #52 on: February 19, 2019, 07:10:45 PM »
Re: Amery Ice Shelf

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Stephan, how about an own thread for Amery too?

Why not? Generally I think it could be useful. But I won't start it as I focus my attention to the WAIS and its glaciers and ice sheets.
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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #53 on: July 15, 2019, 06:47:43 PM »
#1 Nansen ice shelf

#2 Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Iron-rich hypersaline water sporadically emerges from small fissures in the ice cascades. The saltwater source is a subglacial pool of unknown size overlain by about 400 metres (1,300 ft) of ice several kilometers from its tiny outlet at Blood Falls.

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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #54 on: July 15, 2019, 07:35:41 PM »
Thank you for these wonderful pictures.
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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #55 on: July 19, 2019, 03:17:49 PM »
Your quite welcome, and to think this is on a Continent where the average temps are supposed to be -5C.....if memory serves.

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Re: Melt water in Antarctica
« Reply #56 on: July 19, 2019, 05:12:38 PM »
They were talking about taking cold showers in another threadNow I'm shivering!  8)
Arctic ice is healthy for children and other living things because "we cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice"

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« Reply #58 on: July 22, 2019, 08:37:57 PM »
Thanks :)
But I'm shivering again.
Arctic ice is healthy for children and other living things because "we cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice"