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Winds Carve Away Antarctic Snow

2015-10-20 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: A new study has found that powerful winds are removing massive amounts of snow from parts of Antarctica, potentially boosting estimates of how much the continent might contribute to sea level. Up to now, scientists had thought that most snow scoured from parts of the continent was simply redeposited elsewhere on the surface. However, the new study shows that in certain parts, called scour zones, some 90 percentan estimated 80 billion tons per yearis instead being vaporized, and removed altogether....

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