Sentences with phrase «patagonian icefield»

The Southern Patagonian Icefield has on average lost 1.8 m of ice and snow each year since 2000.

The glaciers that make up the Patagonian Icefield of South America have been on the decline for the past four decades, with the rate of melting increasing 50 % over the past decade, according to new research.

Re No. 34, There are a number of tidewater - calving glaciers on the west coast of the South Patagonian Icefield.

Radiocarbon chronology of the late - glacial Puerto Bandera moraines, southern Patagonian Icefield, Argentina.

Schaefer et al. state that there are four active volcanoes within the Southern Patagonian Icefield, which may be accounting for some additional basal melt, but that changes to mass balance from a high geothermal heat flux can only account for a very small additional mass loss.

Satellite measurements of the Patagonian icefields suggest that they are currently rapidly receding and thinning, with a measureable contribution to eustatic sea level rise2.