An area of West Antarctica more than twice
the size of California partially melted in 2016 when warm winds forced
by an especially strong El Nino blew over the continent, an
international group of researchers has determined.
In the June 15 issue of the journal Nature Communications,
they report that the warm spell persisted for more than two weeks in
January 2016. Satellite data revealed a mix of melted snow and ice over
most of the Ross Ice Shelf -- a thick platform of floating ice that
channels about a third of the ice flowing from the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet into the ocean.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170615084601.htm
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