Researchers during the first comprehensive consideration of the thick platforms of floating ice  brought in prominence on Thursday that the moderate degree of heat under ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom up. Scientists have long known that basal melt, the melting of ice shelves from underneath, was taking place at the same time regarded as resulting from a specified cause of the trend to icebergs breaking off the platforms.

On the contrary the new study, that supposed to get published in Friday's issue of the journal Science revealed that most of the lost mass came from the bottom and not from the top. Lead author Eric Rignot of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine explained that their study showcases melting from below by the ocean waters is at a greater extent, at the same time this should change their perspective on the evolution of the ice sheet in a moderately high temperature atmosphere.

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