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The melting ice in question is the Antarctic ice sheet.
这里讨论的融冰是南极的冰盖。
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Ice loss to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has increased by a factor of three on a yearly basis since 2009.
西南极冰盖自2009年起,基于三个因素,每年融冰都增加。
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Scientists looking at the ice sheet often divide it into catchment basins to better understand how the ice in each basin changes and discharges into the ocean, and it turns out to be quite a bit.
观察冰原的科学家常把冰原分成许多集水区,以便了解各集水区的变化和观察流到海里的过程,结果非常惊人。
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It would take the melting of an ice sheet to do that.
但是,一个大冰原的融化就不同了。
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This gives us an idea of how fast a large ice sheet can melt.
这告诉了我们冰原会以多快的速度融化。
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But the Greenland ice sheet is not one solid, smooth mass of ice.
但是,格陵兰冰盖不是一个牢固光滑的冰体。
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The satellite USES radar to measure its altitude above the ice sheet.
卫星用雷达测定卫星从冰层顶部算起的高度。
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Greenland's massive ice sheet holds about 20 percent of the world's ice.
格陵兰巨大冰盖的冰量大约占世界的20%。
冰盖,是,覆盖着广大地区的极厚的冰层,的陆地面积(一般常见于高原地区),覆盖面积少于50000平方公里的叫做冰原。一般指大陆冰川,南极和格陵兰为两个大冰盖。