Sentences with phrase «as glacier area»

As glacier area is lost there will be a long term decline in glacier runoff and alpine streamflow during the melt season.

Not exact matches

But, one area the previous owner ignored was the Mitchell Zone, as it was covered by a glacier when Placer conducted its activities.

This is known as the «driftless» area of Wisconsin, because glaciers drifted around this area during the glacial period.

While hooked onto zipping cable for guiding purposes, trekkers can stay safe while learning about First Nation tribes that originally inhabited the area, as well as caves that were created millions of years ago as a result of glacier ice.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

According to research in the September Nature Climate Change, precipitation patterns in the area have increased, which may help larger glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.

Glaciers act as a liquid bank account for people in those areas, storing snow in winter and releasing melted water slowly in the summer.

The modern lakes are the remnants of a giant prehistoric lake, known as glacial Lake Peace, which covered much of the area between the retreating glaciers.

Future flights will cover critical areas in central and southern Greenland, such as the world's fastest glacier, Jakobshavn Isbræ.

The finding suggests that bryophytes are more resilient than was previously known, the authors say, and likely play a role in the early recolonization of areas revealed by glacier melt, such as those in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic.

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

«This is an area of considerable interest, with its many retreating glaciers,» Hill added, «and with this data as a baseline we'll now be able to better monitor how it changes in the future.»

Evans said they expect to see seasonal changes in carbon dioxide, related to temperature; changes related to freshwater sources, such as glacier melt and stream outfalls; and changes connected to areas of large development.

As a general matter, yes, but AIUI the increasing height (depth) of the ice face is the key factor for accelerating retreat of these glaciers since it creates more surface area for the warm water to work on.

Together, these factors will reduce glacier growth as well as increase the area exposed to melt.

This area is famous for its spectacular views of Mt. McKinley as well as the surrounding peaks and glaciers of the Alaskan Mountain Range.

Many of these icebergs have broken off glaciers from the coast of Greenland and traveled to Canada through an area known as Iceberg Alley.

Snaefellsnes is a unique area with a variety of fascinating geological features such as lava fields, volcanoes, glaciers, mineral springs, beautifully formed rocks, yellow and black sand beaches as well as caves and captivating bird colonies.

With some 140 glaciers making their way down from the Southern Alps, this area is fittingly known as glacier country.

It's a fabulous vessel with spacious indoor as well as outdoor observation areas for viewing whales, sea otters, bald eagles, bears and glaciers in comfort and safety.

But look at, say, Wisconsin, with many meters of loess blown there as the glaciers retreated, then populated as plants took over the area, for ten thousand years.

As runoff from melting glaciers increases and warming seawater expands, sea level could rise as much as six feet, inundating low - lying coastal areas and islandAs runoff from melting glaciers increases and warming seawater expands, sea level could rise as much as six feet, inundating low - lying coastal areas and islandas much as six feet, inundating low - lying coastal areas and islandas six feet, inundating low - lying coastal areas and islands.

The 2007 report used a non-peer-reviewed study produced by an NGO — known as «grey literature» — to erroneously project that 80 percent of the Himalayan glacier area would very likely have melted by 2035.

But, it's beyond obvious that polar temperatures are increasing both significantly and quickly, and the same is true (but possibly less extreme) in sub-arctic areas, as witnessed by the unprecedented melting of glaciers around the world.

In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009).

As a glacier retreats its area available for melting declines and so does glacier runoff in the summer.

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»

All he can really say is what he has, that in his area of glaciers the temps were higher during the early Holocene by the fossil remains of trees which subsequent cooling killed off, but he has not shown that temps were subsequently never warmer until present — these fossil remains could well have been uncovered during such times as the lesser warming of the MWP but conditions there not conducive to re-establishment of trees before the next cooling period arrived.

«All he can really say is what he has, that in his area of glaciers the temps were higher during the early Holocene by the fossil remains of trees which subsequent cooling killed off, but he has not shown that temps were subsequently never warmer until present — these fossil remains could well have been uncovered during such times as the lesser warming of the MWP»

In the new study, the researchers paid particular attention to sub-ice-shelf cavities in front of the Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith and Kohler glaciers in an area known as the Amundsen Sea Embayment.

Thus the topography of the coastal shelves and depth of submerged glacier grounding points determines the impact of upwelled CDW and limits extreme basal melting to a relatively few locations as illustrated by the red and orange areas in the figure below (from Depoorter 2013)..

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS

As the grounded surface area of the outflowing glacier decreases, so does its friction against the bedrock, allowing it to flow with greater ease.

Algae grow on other ice surfaces in areas such as the Himalayas, where they reside on water - producing glaciers.

These were formed as moraine - dammed lakes and the glacier - lake area was estimated to have increased approximately by 2591 sq.meters during the 47 - year period.

Notably, most of the world's glaciers are also getting smaller — except for a few stubborn ones, such as in the Karakoram area of the Himalaya.

Unless global temperatures are stabilized, higher seas from melting ice sheets and mountain glaciers, combined with the heat - driven expansion of ocean water itself, will eventually lead to the displacement of millions of people as low - lying coastal areas and island nations are inundated.

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced glacier surface areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating change in climatic conditions.»

As mountain glaciers melt, many areas that relied on glaciers for their water supplies will be faced with unprecedented droughts.

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).

It's already happening in parts of Europe: They're wrapping glaciers in Switzerland, and Scottish Highlands ski areas are being recast as mountain - biking destinations.