The lakes sit at the bottom of the ice sheet, where the ice meets the rocky Antarctic continent. To obtain This thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica came to be known as the ozone hole. The second lake drained between 2014 and 2015 and is currently filling up again, while the third lake drained just slightly between 2016 and 2017. Curators are realizing that returning looted artifacts isnt closing museumsits opening new doors. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, The study was published June 10 in the journal Nature. If you're trying to subscribe with a non-UW email address, please email uwnews@uw.edu for assistance. This deep reservoir of carbon has been locked away for hundreds of years, and in a polynya it might get ventilated at the surface through this really violent mixing, Campbell said. 21, 11911194 (1994). Nature 321, 755758 (1986). Whats going through my mind? Reed Scherer made this discovery back in 1998 while studying mud that had been plucked from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, through another borehole, 100 miles inland from the back edge of the ice shelf. According to this account, Operation HighJump, the biggest exploration ever to target the Antarctic, was organized to erase the Nazi presence at the south pole. Well, the Goddard folks had set quality control software to look at the data automatically as it came back from the satellite and mark as potentially bad data anything that showed levels below a certain amount, and these levels of the prediction of the Antarctic Surveys were below that amount. Satellite images from Aug. 30, 2017 through Dec. 2, 2017 show the rarely-seen opening in the late Southern Hemisphere winter sea ice. So, basically, it was more than an order of magnitude greater than we expected. Over time, these lakes experienced major change. So, the legacy of the ozone hole story was that effective environmental action can be taken at the international level to resolve global environmental problems. Using a combination of satellite observations and climate models, the research team led by NYUADs Diana Francis determined that the polynyas opening coincided with a cyclone roughly equivalent in strength to a powerful tropical stormforming over the Maud Rise. Frieler, K. et al. This flow, in turn, can change the currents in the Southern Ocean and potentially affect ocean circulation worldwide. 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Munn said his thoughts are on his mother and moving her to a safer neighborhood. The geologists were more than 150 miles from the open ocean when they bored a hole through the 3,000-foot-thick ice with a hot-water drill and lowered a coring device and a video camera into the dark seawater below it. We are cooperating fully with the investigating authorities at this time.. National Research Council. All Rights Reserved. Already, researchers are finding the links between the under-ice lakes and the ocean: In January, a study co-authored by Fricker found that the drainage of one lake on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica flushed as much as 198 billion gallons (750 billion liters) into the ocean in only three days, Live Science reported at the time. Forrestal and Byrd got into hot water by thumbing their noses at the authorities who demanded absolute silence. 2. Many scientists told me that, in fact, they trusted the British Antarctic Survey people. Web6.1M views 2 years ago The Moon rotates around the Earth at about the same speed, as it does around its axis, thats why we can only see one side of it. Warmer, saltier water from the depths gets churned up to the surface, where air chills it and makes it denser than the water below. In this show, were exploring a paper published in the 1980s. Those floating shelves provide a buttress; they are holding back a very big amount of ice, says Craig Stevens, an oceanographer from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, who participated in the expedition. The researchers think the cyclones winds pushed the ice outward from its center, creating a hole that would continue to expand over the days to come. Scientists have discovered two new lakes buried deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The two plus signs show the location of oceanographic robots that were trapped in a spinning column of water above an underwater mountain known as Maud Rise.AMSR2-ASI/University of Bremen. "[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," said Pietro Milillo of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It comes after sensational claims surfaced that NASA was hiding a "sinister secret" about the moon. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. He was killed for his knowledge. Its a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it, Griffiths said. The finding waspublished Mondayin Frontiers in Marine Science. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Nature 328, 408411 (1987). Climate change is also warming the oceans, potentially making it harder for the polynya to refreeze once its been opened. Conspiracy theorists have actually interpreted these written remembrances as clear evidence that Richard Byrd did actually uncover an entry to the center of the planet. Earths protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. J. Geophys. Atmos. Heres how it works. The ice holeknown as a polynya in the parlance of sea ice researcherswas likely caused by a powerful cyclone that spun up in Antarcticas Weddell sea before migrating eastward into the Lazarev sea in mid-September 2017, according to research published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2023 University of Washington | Seattle, WA, Mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice explained by years of robotic data, Dan Costa/University of California, Santa Cruz, Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling, Human-wildlife conflicts rising worldwide with climate change, Newly discovered form of salty ice could exist on surface of extraterrestrial moons, UW computer scientist and mathematician named Sloan Fellows. 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The ice holeknown as a polynya in the parlance of sea ice researcherswas likely caused by a powerful cyclone that spun up in Antarcticas Old cells hang around as we age, doing damage to the body. And, of course, there was nothing there. Its just a theory. The Montreal Protocol, as its initially written, was a 50% reduction in production of chlorofluorocarbons it was not a ban. Did you encounter any technical issues? The growing cavity sits in West Antarctica at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier, which is about as big as Florida and contains enough ice to contribute more than 2 feet to sea level rise, NASA said. Every time I see [the pilots], they wave and smile. The Goddard team was scooped and they knew it. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military and commercial aviation. Chem., 2011). Total ozone has been measured at the British Antarctic Survey stations, Argentine islands and Halley Bay since 1957. This is the Nature PastCast, each month raiding Natures archive and looking at key moments in science. Scientists were fascinated and puzzled by feature, which hadnt appeared at this scale since the 1970s. The study shows that when winds surrounding Antarctica draw closer to shore, they promote stronger upward mixing in the eastern Weddell Sea. Its important to understand these currents, says Stevens, because if we get the circulation wrong, then were getting the melting wrong., The new project could also cast light on some lingering suspicionsthat even though the Ross Ice Shelf seems stable today, it has actually undergone some dramatic collapses in the recent past. So, they ultimately wound up corroborating the British Antarctic Surveys story and getting a bit of egg on their faces too. Global sea levels would rise by 10 feet if West Antarctica lost these crucial stabilizers and spilled its ice into the ocean. They claimed that to be the protectors of planet Earth to protect its inhabitants from the scurrilous activities of the power brokers and nefarious government agencies with impure agendas. Google Scholar. Phys. These When we were working up to publishing our paper, concerns had been expressed that these CFCs might destroy the ozone layer, that exhaust gases from Concorde might destroy the ozone layer, and the general thoughts were that any destruction would probably take place at high altitude in the tropics. 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When does spring start? Computers were just coming in. As the lakes drain and fill, the ice above rises and falls, offering hints as to what's happening below. Navy Seal Reveals Secret Mission to Ancient Buried Structure in The ozone hole actually still appears every year, and it has completely disappeared from public conversation. It likely collapsed during a warm period 400,000 years ago. Some complained we shouldnt use that term, but once you let that term out of the bag, there was no going back. I was with NASA for 35 years, and I had just come off of a stint as a low-level manager and was just getting back into doing some real science, and we had people who had been taking satellite data of ozone. Nature, international weekly journal of science. We had a period of about ten years where the data hadnt been reduced and doing it manually was quite time consuming. In 1977, researchers drilled through the ice shelf 300 miles in from its seaward edge (about 80 miles inland from the current holes), and in 2015 a team drilled through the back corner of the ice shelf, 500 miles in from its seaward edge. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). We were looking for, at most, a few percent change in ozone and we werent necessarily looking in Antarctica. Cline Heuz, a physical oceanographer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, told Earther in a phone interview that other recent research has shown 2017 to be quite an intense year in the Southern Ocean with respect to storm activity. While Heuz said that the new studys findings make sense, shes keen to learn more about the role that the ocean plays, which is why she recently had a student trek out and deploy an autonomous profiler to measure temperature and salinity in the Maud Rise area. 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