Sentences with phrase «if glacier»

If glacier data is a little incorrect but helps that effort, then the data is true in all but a very narrow and clinical scientific sense.

If the glacier surface is too cold, it won't get rid of all the heat that it is receiving, and therefore will warm.

If the glacier thins than there is less friction at the calving front from the fjord walls and the fjord base, leading to greater flow.

If the glacier that originates near Mount Logan in the Yukon continues advancing at its current rate, it could -LSB-...]

If a glacier can not retreat to a point where equilibrium is established, it is in disequilibrium with the current climate.

IF glacier melt was supplying the water, then stopping this melt would leave people short of water.

A glacier the size of California in East Antarctica is in danger of melting away, which could lead to an extreme thaw increases sea levels by about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) worldwide if the glacier vanishes, a new study finds.

If a glacier has large homogenous areas this reduces the measurement density (Lemon Creek Glacier), if it has many small unique mass balance zones a higher measurement density is required (Columbia Glacier).

All I did was quote the article's title and lead paragraph, give a link to the article, and say I didn't know if the glacier was discussed in the testimony.

Not sure if GLACIER will file your state taxes.

But if the glacier is changing, Wyoming politics are not.

If a glacier loses mass from enhanced melting, it may start floating farther inland from its former grounding line, just as a boat stuck on a sandbar may be able to float again if a heavy cargo is removed.

If a glacier reaches the ocean where the seafloor is shallow, the ice interacts with frigid freshwater and melts slowly.

If glaciers disappear, summer crops will wither and die.

If these glaciers retreat at a similar rate to what they did in the past decade, 30 of them would disconnect from warm ocean waters by the end of the century with that kind of travel distance, it says.

Therefore, if glaciers had retreated when there was no manmade carbon - producing industry, variations in climate must be caused by natural factors.

Similarly, if glaciers or ice sheets expanded, this could cause a global sea level fall.

The only way more water can be added is if the glaciers and ice sheets currently perched on land above sea level are warming, melting and pouring into the sea.

He says that if glaciers in the region continue to melt at the rate seen during the past 30 years, there is a risk that nearly all of them will vanish before the end of the century.

The glaciers of West Antarctica are already responsible for the majority of the Antarctic continent's contribution to global sea level rise, and if these glaciers were to completely collapse, sea levels could rise by at least four feet, potentially inundating coastal cities around the world.

If those glaciers continue to retreat, they could set in motion a process without a foreseeable end, researchers say.

That's because if the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region are destabilized, it would allow warm seawater to erode neighboring ices shelves, setting off a domino effect on the continent's ice sheet, experts suggest.

«If the glaciers were not melting, this would just be stored - away history of human interaction with the environment,» said Kimberley Miner, an earth and climate scientist and graduate student at the University of Maine in Orono, who presented the research this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans.

The report notes that changes in the salinity of oceans, if glaciers melt and water temperatures change, could affect submarine equipment such as sonar.

If glaciers are the source of your drinking water or if you live in an area that is vulnerable to sea - level rise, then yes, you should be worried.

This latter assumption may need to be adjusted if glaciers and ice caps in the Eocene had a volume of tens of metres of sea level.

If glaciers melt, it says little in the general sense about the net input to those glaciers.

Even if the glaciers melted — which we now know, as a result of «Glaciergate», is a prospect that has been deferred by some three centuries — rain and snow would still fall on the mountains, and make their way to the sea.

Meanwhile if the glaciers are still largely stuck to their beds today then sea levels between now and say 2020 aren't likely to tell us much about what they're likely to become by 2100.

Not exact matches

Reconciliation is hard and humbling, this is true, and it's also startlingly beautiful as if we were hiking through the woods at the base of the mountain and then we suddenly come face - to - face with a powerful waterfall, raining down from the glaciers at the top, ready to quench our thirst.

If there are vast, Big Sky - looking valleys, a slew of blue lakes that get bluer the closer they get to their source glaciers, and brown plateaus perfectly suited for a downhill Orc charge pop up, stop.

The same goes Matty Ice, he's been an undeniable stud, the heart of this team if u will and I think his best years are ahead of him, but even glaciers melt and I'd love for our leader to personally groom his incumbent as well..

On a glacier each step you take is tentative, even if your path has been tested by someone in front of you.

A glacier won't let you down, if you're careful.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

The study shows that it's plausible, even if Mars was generally frozen over, that peak daily temperatures in summer might sneak above freezing just enough to cause melting at the edges of glaciers.

The grounding zone — where the ice lifts off the muddy bottom of what would be the Antarctic shoreline if there were no ice, and begins to float on the ocean — serves as a brake, controlling the speed of the glaciers feeding into it.

If the process holds true in these places, she said, then tiny mountain glaciers may be helping power watersheds throughout large portions of the Arctic.

Yesterday's study suggests that total glacier volume across all the investigated basins will decrease by about 43 percent by the year 2100, even if the world takes serious steps to mitigate climate change.

«It doesn't matter if it's an earthquake, or a train going by, or an animal, or a nuclear explosion, or glaciers,» West said.

If the ice at the bottom of a glacier melts, the point where it connects to the bedrock moves backward, farther inland, losing ice to the ocean in the process.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

«If we could look back at this region of Antarctica in the 1940s and 1830s, we would find that the regional climate would look a lot like it does today, and I think we also would find the glaciers retreating much as they are today,» said Steig, lead author of a paper on the findings published online April 14 in Nature Geoscience.

The Statue of Liberty, if not first felled by an earthquake, would likely be flattened by glaciers that have advanced on the region three times in the past 100,000 years.

«But if it did, that degree warming would be affecting the [tidewater] glaciers regionally.»

Time is running out: if global warming continues at its current rate, glaciers at an altitude below 3,500 metres in the Alps and 5,400 metres in the Andes will have disappeared by the end of the end of the 21st century.

«If you add the cave data to the data from the glaciers, it gives you a neat way of figuring out whether it was cold temperatures or higher precipitation that drove the glacier growth at the time,» Willenbring said.

If that were the only thing happening, we would expect these glaciers to very slowly be creeping forward, forward, forward.

If the majority of the phosphorus found in meltwater from all of Greenland's glaciers reaches the sea, it would be equal to about 400,000 metric tons (440,000 U.S. tons) per year of phosphorus, more than Arctic rivers are estimated to contribute to the Arctic Ocean, according to the new study.

It is not clear yet how much of the phosphorus being released from the ice sheet is reaching the open ocean, but if a large amount of phosphorus coming off the glacier makes it to the sea, the nutrient could rev up biological activity of Arctic waters, according to the study's authors.