The first-ever images of Antarctica's 'Doomsday glacier,' roughly the size of Florida, show melting from below.
told ABC News that the initial data that was collected changes scientists' understanding baseline conditions of what is happening with the glacier.
Scientists undertook observations of the grounding line, where the ice first meets the ocean, beneath the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf to understand how the ice and ocean interact.one of the studies Davis said in a statement that the results were surprising but still not good news for the state of the glacier."If an ice shelf and a glacier are in balance, the ice coming off the continent will match the amount of ice being lost through melting and iceberg calving. What we have found is that despite small amounts of melting there is still rapid glacier retreat, so it seems that it doesn’t take a lot to push the glacier out of balance," he said in a statement.
"We never had this data before so we had our best guess," Schmidt said. "We now have the measurements we need to fine-tune our models."
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