Download Ward Hunt Ice Shelf PNG. Ice shelf in the arctic ocean. By september 2002, the ice shelf had split several times.

Quick Facts On Ice Shelves National Snow And Ice Data Center from nsidc.org

We had 23% less (sea ice) last year than we've ever had, and what's happening to the ice shelves is part of that picture. when ice shelves break apart, they drift offshore into the ocean as ice islands, transforming the very geography of the coastline. In addition, ward hunt ice shelf's central area disintegrated into drifting ice masses last summer, leaving two separate ice shelves measuring 88 and 29 square miles respectively, reduced from 132 square miles the previous year. Excellent results were obtained for milne ice shelf and its depth was found to average roughly 70 m, in places attaining 100 m.

Mueller said the sheet broke away last week from the ward hunt ice shelf off the north coast of ellesmere island in canada's far north.

Critical to this work was instrument reliability, since. The largest ice shelf in the northern hemisphere has fractured into three main pieces. The ward hunt ice shelf is the largest ice shelf in the arctic, located on the north coast of ellesmere island, nunavut, canada. (the ice shelf is breaking into pieces faster than new ice can be formed.) since the beginning…