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According to Bert Wouters, a researcher at TU Delft in the Netherlands, more of these meltwater pools had been observed popping up across the Amery in previous seasons compared to 2025.
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
The pale blue meltwater pools seen on the Amery are a common sight during Antarctica's melt season, caused by the warmer temperatures of the Southern Hemisphere's summer.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
As ice sheets warm, however, the meltwater spreads out across the global ocean, and most of the ocean is at lower latitudes, farther from the rotation axis than the ice caps are.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
The only place where average surface temperatures have cooled is the area immediately around Antarctica, and that’s probably due to meltwater from shrinking ice sheets, Schmidt said.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
The pale blue meltwater pools seen on the Amery are a common sight during Antarctica's melt season, caused by the warmer temperatures of the Southern Hemisphere's summer.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
As ice sheets warm, however, the meltwater spreads out across the global ocean, and most of the ocean is at lower latitudes, farther from the rotation axis than the ice caps are.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
The only place where average surface temperatures have cooled is the area immediately around Antarctica, and that’s probably due to meltwater from shrinking ice sheets, Schmidt said.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Meltwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meltwater. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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meltwater
noun
melt·wa·ter
ˈmelt-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: water that comes from the melting of ice and snow
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