Sentences with phrase «mass balance records»

Continuous mass balance records have been kept for about 40 glaciers since the early 1960s.

Lie, and S.O. Dahl, 2000: Is the North Atlantic Oscillation reflected in Scandinavian glacier mass balance records?

The glacier mass balance record in alpine regions does indicate a steepening of the gradient.

Hence the increasingly negative glacier mass balance record that you are familar with.

The annual glacier mass balance record below indicates that the response of annual balance is quite similar for each glacier.

This survey was the initiation of the mass balance record of Storglaciären Glacier, and constitutes the longest continuous study of this type in the world.

3) What is the recent mass balance record of North Cascade glaciers?

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Finally, the mass balance system allows certified and non-certified oils to be mixed, but every company in the supply chain needs to record how much of each they buy and sell.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

So I had to back up the story of my trip to Alaska with satellite data on sea ice, and I had to justify my pictures of disappearing glaciers in the Andes with long - term records of mass balance of mountain glaciers.

To determine if these key climate indices could be useful for forecasting the glacier mass balance the mass balance records from North Cascade glaciers were correlated with two PDO and MEI (Bitz and Batisti 1999; Hodge et al., 1998; Pelto and Miller, 2003).

«A high - resolution record of Greenland mass balance» «Antarctica, Greenland and Gulf of Alaska land - ice evolution from an iterated GRACE global mascon solution» «Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet mass changes and effects on global sea level»

Greenland surface ice mass balance has also reached a record high, defying the often heard claims that it's melting.

Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire history.

We have found that we can reasonably calculate mass balance from climate records for the mean of all the glaciers, but not for individual glaciers., with input from Snotel sites and Diablo Dam weather station.

For example, analyses of glacier mass balances, volume changes and length variations along with temperature records in the western European Alps (Vincent et al., 2005) indicate that between 1760 and 1830, glacier advance was driven by precipitation that was 25 % above the 20th century average, while there was little difference in average temperatures.

Systematic investigations of glacier mass balance started after 1945, so these records are shorter than the instrumental climate records normally available in the vicinity.