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Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from below

  • Written by Maurice Huguenin, Postdoctoral research associate in Physical Oceanography, UNSW Sydney
Heat from El Niño can warm oceans off West Antarctica – and melt floating ice shelves from belowAndreAnita/Shutterstock

As snow falls on Antarctica, layers build up and turn to ice. Over time, this compressed snow has become a continent-sized glacier, or ice sheet. It’s enormous – almost double the size of Australia and far larger than the continental United States.

As the weight of ice builds up, the ice sheet begins to move...

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