Diferencies ente revisiones de «Indlandsis de L'Antártida»

[[Archivu:Antarctica 6400px from Blue Marble.jpg|miniatura|Imaxe satelital compuesta del continente antárticu.]]

 

 

La '''cubierta de xelu''' o '''indlandsis antárticu''' ye unu de los dos [[casquete polar|casquetes polares]] (o calotas polares) de la [[Tierra]]. Cubre cerca del 98&nbsp;% del [[Antártida|continente antárticu]] y ye la masa singular de [[xelu]] más grande de la Tierra, con siquier 14&nbsp;millones de [[kilómetros cuadraos|km²]] y contién 30&nbsp;millones de [[kilómetros cúbicos|km³]] de xelu.<ref>Esos 30 millones de [[kilómetros cúbicos|km³]] equivalen a un cubu de 310.72&nbsp;km de llau, o a 70&nbsp;metros d'altor d'agua en tolos océanos del planeta.</ref><!--That is, approximately 61 percent of all [[fresh water]] on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to 70 m of water in the world's oceans. In [[East Antarctica]], the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in [[West Antarctica]] the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sía level. The land in this area would be seabed if the ice sheet were not there.-->

| date = 22 d'agostu de 2002

| url = http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southseaice.html

The xeneral trend shows that a warming climate in the southern hemisphere would transport more moisture to Antarctica, causing the interior ice sheets to grow, while calving events along the coast will increase, causing these areas to shrink. However more recent satellite data, which measures changes in the [[Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment|gravity]] of the ice mass, suggests that the total amount of ice in Antarctica has begun decreasing in the past few years.<ref>{{Citation

| last = Velicogna

| title = Biography

| url = http://www.ess.washington.edu/web/ess/people/faculty_bio/steig-bio.html

| last = Ingham

| first = Richard