Simplified Coastal Glacier Simulation (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Simplified Coastal Glacier Simulation

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Overlapping simulations of a glacier, one with climate change and the other without. Glaciers melt dramatically when they retreat past their stabilizing threshold, shown here as a peak in the bedrock. According to research from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and Georgia Tech, that becomes much likelier with climate change.

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John Erich Christian/University of Texas Institute for Geophysics/Georgia Tech

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