When an iceberg separates from the ice shelf and capsizes, the green ice is exposed.
当冰山从冰架上分离并倾覆时，绿色的冰层就露出来了。
Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica's less colorful icebergs.
一旦与冰架脱离，这些冰山就会受到南极洲附近的洋流和季风系统的作用，并开始漂移。人们可以在南极洲较暗淡的冰山群中找到这些散落的冰山。
An enormous iceberg nestles into an ice shelf in Antarctica.
一座巨大的冰山依偎在南极冰架的怀抱。
The enormous Wilkins ice shelf is now barely attached to land.
巨大的威尔金斯冰架目前几乎不再贴附在陆地上。
Thinning of the ice shelf at the fringes leads toglaciers moving more quickly.
冰架的边缘变薄将导致冰河流动更快。
Calving: the breaking off of an iceberg from a glacier or ice shelf.
冰裂：冰山从冰川或冰架上断裂下来。
In addition, about 4,500 square miles of the Larsen ice shelf is gone.
此外，Larsen冰架有大约4500平方英里的面积已经消失了。
So the hypothesis was that it was coming from the ocean, which was melting the ice shelf from below.
所以我们假设，冰融是来自海洋，正从下面融化冰架。
The brown and black stripes you see on the icebergs are created by sediment underneath the ice shelf.
冰山上的褐色与黑色条纹是由冰架下的沉积物产生的。
The melting of an ice shelf, which is merely a floating projection into the sea, would not affect sea levels.
冰架仅仅是底部向海里突出的漂浮物，它的融化不影响海平面。
The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice.
威尔金斯冰架的面积相当于康涅狄格州，其所剩的部分由一个狭窄的薄冰梁柱支撑。
The iceberg that eventually calves from the breaking ice shelf will cover around 880 square kilometres, project scientists said.
负责该项目的科学家说，最终从破裂的冰架上分离出来的冰山会有约880平方公里。
Several huge icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf in 2000 and are now drifting away from Antarctica.
在2000年，几个巨大的冰山从南极洲的罗斯冰架和朗尼冰架上脱落，现在正漂离南极洲。
This new base, however, is more like an RV than an A-frame: Several ski-shod pods get towed back to their original positions as the ice shelf moves.
这座新基地抛弃了传统的A字形架构，采用了房车式整体结构，当冰架移动时，几个锚定的滑雪轮轨可以将科考站拖曳回原来的位置。
Dr Bromirski, however, knew of a study that had deployed seismometers successfully on the Ross ice shelf, and he was able to reanalyse the data from it.
然而Bromirski博士了解到，某一项研究中已经在罗斯冰架上成功地部署了地震检波器，而他则可利用该项研究获得的数据进行再次分析。
"We now know that there is relatively warm water beneath this floating ice," observed Dr Dutrieux, "so this warm water could have been able to melt the base of the ice shelf."
“我们现在知道，这块浮冰下面水温相对较高，”杜特·里奥博士观察评论说，“所以这些温暖海水可能会融化冰架的底部。”
Neil Young, an Australian Antarctic division glaciologist, said: "The iceberg is likely to be part of one of the big ones that calved from the Ross ice shelf nearly a decade ago.
澳大利亚南极署冰河学家尼尔·杨说，“这座冰山可能是约十年以前从罗斯冰架上碎裂脱落下来的大冰山的一部分。
The ocean is a very sensitive system, according to Rignot, and even small shifts, like changes in ocean circulation driven by wind, can make a huge difference in ice shelf melt.
瑞格诺特说，海洋是非常敏感的系统，即使是小的变化，比如风力驱动的海洋循环，也会对冰架融化产生巨大影响。
A huge ice shelf in the Antarctic is in the last stages of collapse and could break up within days in the latest sign of how global warming is thought to be changing the face of the planet.
南极的一个巨大的冰架正处于崩塌的最后阶段，并在最近几天就可能断裂。这将是全球性气候变暖如何改变地球面貌的最新迹象。
The team paddles the kayaks whilst running the radar, over the carefully selected 25 kilometer course along a meltwater channel which runs down the middle of the glacier's floating ice shelf.
该团队精心选择了位于冰川浮动冰架中间的25公里融化水道，一边划着橡皮船，一边操纵雷达。
The Amery Ice Shelf appears to be uniquely suited to the production of green icebergs.
埃默里冰架似乎是唯一适合形成绿色冰山的地方。
The ice was on the edge of the Wilkins ice Shelf and had been there for possibly 1,500 years.
此冰川位于威尔·斯金冰架(WilkinsIce Shelf)的边缘，并可能已存在1500年。
The ice was on the edge of the Wilkins ice Shelf and had been there for possibly 1, 500 years.
此冰川位于威尔·斯金冰架(WilkinsIce Shelf)的边缘，并可能已存在1500年。
The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Canadian Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island.
最近一次如此大的浮冰岛的形成发生在1962年，当时加拿大的沃德亨特冰架崩解形成个小岛。
More than 180 kilometers [112 miles] long, the glacier flows down from the polar plateau (left) to the Ross Ice Shelf (right).
它超过180公里(112英里)长，从极地高原(图的左边)一直流到罗斯冰架(图的右边)。
More than 180 kilometers [112 miles] long, the glacier flows down from the polar plateau (left) to the Ross Ice Shelf (right).
它超过180公里(112英里)长，从极地高原(图的左边)一直流到罗斯冰架(图的右边)。
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