{"id":741,"date":"2019-05-02T03:27:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/02\/warm-surface-water-temperatures-are-driving\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T03:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:27:03","slug":"warm-surface-water-temperatures-are-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/02\/warm-surface-water-temperatures-are-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Surface Water Temperatures Are Driving Melting on the World\u2019s Largest Ice Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/warm-surface-water-temperatures-are-driving-melting-on-the-worlds-largest-ice-shelf'>Warm Surface Water Temperatures Are Driving Melting on the World\u2019s Largest Ice Shelf<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The newly identified rapidly melting zone is at the front of the Ross Ice Shelf, where it juts out into a naturally ice-free part of the Southern Ocean, formed as the result of polar wind patterns. The area is a critical part of the shelf that helps to stabilise the flow of ice behind it. If the Ross Ice Shelf collapses, it could raise global sea levels by an <a href=\"https:\/\/earthdata.nasa.gov\/user-resources\/sensing-our-planet\/after-the-larsen-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimated 5<\/a>\u00a0meters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm Surface Water Temperatures Are Driving Melting on the World\u2019s Largest Ice Shelf The newly identified rapidly melting zone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}