Alerting news has emerged from Antarctica as researchers have released a video, where William Glacier which is as big as 10 football grounds broke into thousand pieces. The research paper has been published in Science Advances Journal reveals that researchers believe that this event is likely to generate strong internal waves triggering internal tsunamis on the ocean surface. According to information received about the incident, it occurred when the team aboard the research ship RRS James Clark Ross of the British Antarctic Survey was taking ocean measurements off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Each year, William Glacier typically has at least two ice break-offs. The team highlighted in the research that the front part of the glacier is 40 meters above sea level. It was found that the incident broke up about 78,000 square meters of ice, which is equivalent to 10 football fields. It turns out that before the break of the glacier, the ocean water at a depth of 50–100 meters was warm. It was observed that a variation in temperature was observed at different depths. Research specialist has claimed that there are many important factors of internal tsunami waves coming in the sea. All of these affect marine life, change temperatures at different depths, and cause further melting of sea ice. The data the researchers used to complete the survey was taken from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite when the ship was near the glacier and the radar captured the picture.
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