Sentences with phrase «many smaller glaciers»

Two mountains, one mountain range, one lake, a small glacier, an arch, a meteorological station and one golf club have been named after Dr. John Oliver La Gorce of Washington, D.C., who is shown here with his famed collection of weapons.

From Dec. 26 through February (weather permitting), a small glacier - sized building will be erected out of ice crystals.

A small glacier lake known as Nagma Pokhari sits nestled in a valley near Mount Everest in Nepal, surrounded by steep walls of sediment that hold the icy waters in place.

The new study reinforces previous research showing the power of climate change over small glaciers worldwide.

It wasn't until around 34 million years ago that the first small glaciers formed on the tops of Antarctica's mountains.

They found greater amounts of phosphorus in the waters of the Leverett Glacier than had been detected at previous study sites, which have looked mostly at smaller glaciers.

And she describes sobering trends: The projection that Switzerland will lose more than half of its small glaciers in the next 25 years; the substantial retreat of glaciers from the Antarctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, Greenland and the Arctic; the disappearance of iconic glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, or reduction to chunks of ice that no longer move (by definition, a glacier must be massive enough to move).

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

Rosanova, C.E., Lucchitta, B.K., and Ferrigno, J.G., Velocities of the Thwaites Glacier and smaller glaciers along the Marie Byrd Land coast, West Antarctica.

Close - up of small glaciers from a previous image, as seen by HiRISE under the HiWish program.

Olafur Eliasson The small glacier surfer series 2007 12 c - prints each 10 x 14 3/4 inches; 25.5 x 37.5 cm (framed) overall dimensions 48 1/2 x 48 1/4 inches; 123 x 122.5 cm Edition of 6; 1 AP

The small glaciers (less than 100 sq. km) of Svalbard do seem to be rapidly shrinking yet some of the larger ones are in near steady - state (unpublished thesis data).

Steve you have referred to the Howat paper a number of times noting that the smaller glaciers are providing more output than the largest glaciers.

It should be noted that this is the point of Howat et al., they are not trying to make the point that the smaller glaciers are more important, as they were not comprehensive in examining all glaciers.

They found that while two of the largest glaciers in that area — Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim — contribute more to the total ice loss than any other single glaciers, the 30 or so smaller glaciers there contributed 72 percent of the total ice lost.

My hunch is the few large glaciers draw from the central ice mass through «gateways» and the many smaller glaciers instead form mostly from snowfall on the outside of the ring of mountains around the icecap.

Re # 60: I don't really know, Hank, other than to point out that Howat stated that the small glaciers are draining the interior.

Steve, have you checked the specific sources of the smaller glaciers?

The small glaciers in the Central Range of Irian Jaya, the Indonesian portion of New Guinea, have shrunk by well over a mile.

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»

In East Antarctica, small glacier losses led to a near - zero loss of 4 ± 61 gigatons per year.

The melting of small glaciers also poses problems.

Argentinian geoscientist Ricardo Villalba stands accused of manipulating a national inventory of glaciers to exclude smaller glaciers from environmental protections, and thereby enabling repeated instances of cyanide pollution by the mining industry.

Small glaciers are the most vulnerable, and are disappearing.

Mark B. Dyurgerov and Mark F. Meier, «Twentieth Century Climate Change: Evidence from Small Glaciers,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

The smaller glaciers with < 1 km2 dimension had decreased by 43 % in their surface area showing rapid disappearance of very small glacier.

The melting is most pronounced for small glaciers at altitudes below 17,000 feet, he said, which have lost an average of 4.4 feet of ice thickness per year.

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In the Andes, a number of small glaciers have already disappeared, such as the Chacaltaya in Bolivia and Cotacachi in Ecuador.

Re your last comment, I think the paper was focused entirely on the three ice sheets, and didn't purport to draw any conclusions about the small glaciers or the overall melt / SLR budget.

The projected disappearance of small glaciers * worldwide threatens to eliminate the water supply for numerous towns in valleys, such as the Ecuadorian capital Quito, fed by the rivers that flow down from the surrounding mountains.

Fluctuations in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance as they impact directly on global sea levels: since 1901, ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland, alongside the melting of small glaciers and ice caps and thermal expansion of the oceans, have caused global sea levels to rise at an average rate of 1.7 mm / yr.

* see news sheet no. 127 — Small glaciers in the tropical Andes: a forewarning of disappearance (http://www.ird.fr/la-mediatheque/fiches-d-actualite-scientifique/127-petits-glaciers-des-andes-tropicales-une-disparition-annoncee)

I mean if after an Ice Age you can have large and thick glaciers receding at that rate of natural causes why is it so surprising that smaller glaciers in a warmer climate are receding.

The Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia (16 ° S) is a typical example of a disappearing small glacier, whose area in 1940 was 0.22 km2, and which has currently reduced (in 2005) to less than 0.01 km2 (Figure 1.1)(Ramirez et al., 2001; Francou et al., 2003; Berger et al., 2005), with current estimates showing that it may disappear completely before 2010.

Overall, the outlook is bleak for small glaciers everywhere.

A new study focuses on how small glaciers will contribute to rising sea levels.

His study, based on carbon - dated tree remains, which were recovered under receding alpine glaciers, gives a clear picture of smaller glacier extent than today in several periods over the past 10,000 years.

«But for the next few generations, it is the small glaciers that will be most important.»

The rapid melt of small glaciers and mountain ice caps will be the main source of sea level rise over the next century, according to a new study.

Read more about Greenland: Satellite Images Reveal Two of Greenland's Biggest Glaciers Are Losing More Ice Greenland Glacier About to Lose Manhattan - sized Ice Chunk (Video) As its Glaciers Melt, Greenland on Track to Emit 10 Million Tons of CO2 a Year Watch Greenland Melting - on the Icecam Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72 % of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers Researchers Say Global Warming Beer: Greenland Brews with Melting Ice Cap

For the period 1961 - 2003, the observed sea level rise due to thermal expansion was 0.42 millimeters per year and 0.69 millimeters per year due to total glacier melt (small glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets)(IPCC 2007).

This does not take into account how much sea level might swell from the metldown of the numerous small glaciers in Alaska, Argentina, Canada and Russia, which already contribute 60 percent of sea level rise from glacial melt.

The relatively small glaciers that drape the planet's mountains will play an important role in future sea level rise, according to a new study that estimated glaciers» collective size.

«Some small glaciers like this have already disappeared,» he said as melting icicles dripped on nearby rock, exposed for the first time in millennia.

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).

More on Global Climate Change: Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short - Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72 % of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers Greenland Rising as Ice Melts

Some small glaciers have completely disappeared, such as the Chacaltaya glacier of Bolivia, which was once the world's highest ski resort, but which vanished in 2009.

Not exact matches

Most people love to travel, but they might think twice before landing a small aircraft on glaciers or dirt airstrips.

For smaller oysters with crisp, clean flavors, you'll want oysters from colder, cleaner waters and narrower, smaller waterways, she says: «Think: glaciers and fjords, places where you can see through the water.