Glacier mass balance modelling indicates that to compensate for the increased
ablation from a temperature rise of 1 °C a precipitation increase of 20 % (Oerlemans, 1981) or 35 % (Raper et al., 2000) would be required.
2) Snowpack
ablation from 1984 - 2002 on four glaciers (3 by NCGCP and 1 by USGS).
Not exact matches
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For the study, designed to identify the best predictors, the researchers used data
from 208 atrial fibrillation or «Afib» patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to undergo
ablation between June 2010 and December 2015.
The researchers then analyzed various characteristics of the imaging scans
from 208 people in a subgroup: 107 of the people with successful
ablations compared to 101 of those with failed
ablations.
The specific areas that benefit
from additional
ablation depend on each patient's individual condition.
In addition, many patients in the study required more than one
ablation procedure to achieve freedom
from atrial fibrillation.
In addition to having a higher rate of freedom
from atrial fibrillation, participants who underwent catheter
ablation also had lower rates of hospitalization and mortality during the two - year follow up.
There are multiple techniques currently being studied for this type of drug delivery mechanism,
from microneedles to iontophoresis (transdermal drug delivery via electric current), but the Kumamoto University researchers designed to improve a technique called transdermal thermal
ablation.
Marrouche and Johannes Brachmann
from the Klinikum Coburg conducted the eight - year CASTLE - AF clinical trial to compare catheter
ablation to conventional drug therapies recommended by the American Heart Association and European Heart Society to control the heart's rate.
During catheter
ablation, which typically takes four to five hours, cardiologists thread a catheter, or long thin tube, up through a blood vessel
from the groin to the heart and use it as a conduit to send radiofrequency energy to cauterize the misfiring cells.
There are interesting similarities between the results of the current study and published data
from leptin - deficient mice with genetic
ablation of the atrophic hormone myostatin (55, 56).
Ablation of kappa - opioid receptors
from brain dopamine neurons has anxiolytic - like effects and enhances cocaine - induced plasticity.
Evidence
from glacial advance / retreat (e.g. the evidence
from tropical Andean glaciers you cite above) is often difficult to interpret, because glacial mass balance represents in general a subtle competition between the influences of
ablation (determined by changes in temperature thresholds reached) and accumulation (determined by changes in humidity and precipitation).
Dresselhaus also analysed graphite using techniques including laser
ablation in which energy
from a laser beam is used to strip material
from a surface.
Dresselhaus also analyzed graphite, using techniques including laser
ablation, in which energy
from a laser beam is used to strip material
from a surface.
In parallel to this work on micrometeorites, he discovered and first described aggregates of meteoritic
ablation spheres
from Antarctica.
Atrial fibrillation patients with a prior history of stroke who undergo catheter
ablation to treat the abnormal heart rhythm lower their long - term risk of a recurrent stroke by 50 percent, according to new research
from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute.
This week, the institute announced that Greenland's
ablation season, the period when its ice sheet loses more mass
from melting along its edges than it does
from snowfall in its interior, started on June 6.
A heating and freezing process known as dual thermal
ablation can kill pancreatic cancer cells, according to new research
from Binghamton University, State University at New York.
Jacoby and Schembri disclosed that they have received funding
from Halt Medical supporting a study of women with uterine fibroids who were treated with radiofrequency
ablation.
Experimental approach: To use patient - specific induce pluripotent cell models
from a (i) storage disease (NCL), (ii) aggregate prone disease (ALS) and (iii) a disease with no aggregates but hyperexcitability (ChAc) combined with state of the art live cell imaging techniques, electrophysiology and biophysical tools (PIV, laser
ablation for cortex tension measurements, AFM).
Whole - body Induced Cell Turnover (WICT) consists of the qualitative and quantitative coordination of targeted cell
ablation with exogenous cell administration so as to effect the replacement of a patient's entire set of endogenous cells with exogenous cells (of the same quantity and cell type as the ablated endogenous cells they are replacing) derived
from human pluripotent stem cells and directionally differentiated in vitro prior to their administration.
The Hartford researchers speculate that the
ablation procedure itself, most likely the anaesthesia, facilitates the transfer of magnesium
from serum to intracellular space.
There are interesting similarities between the results of the current study and published data
from leptin - deficient mice with genetic
ablation of the atrophic hormone myostatin (55, 56).
Laser
Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass... — Samples of copper - based artifacts
from four components
from three Late Iroquoian archaeological sites in southern Ontario were analysed using Laser
Ablation...
Therefore
ablation (removal of the material
from the surface of an object by vaporization, or other erosive processes) of the ear may be necessary.
This is a far
from insignificant change, amounting to 32 % of the measured net
ablation during the short period for which data is available.
The altitude separating the accumulation zone
from the
ablation zone is known as the equilibrium line altitude.
Runoff
from steep ice - cliffs, or through subglacial flow driven by water percolating through pores or fractures, will convert a high fraction of melting into
ablation.
So long as an ice sheet gains an equal mass through snowfall as it loses through melt,
ablation, and calving
from glaciers and ice shelves, it is said to be in balance.
Ablation triangles are placed in a sequence from regions that first lose their snow cover to regions where snow cover perists for a significant portion of the ablation
Ablation triangles are placed in a sequence
from regions that first lose their snow cover to regions where snow cover perists for a significant portion of the
ablationablation season.
Ablation rates in May at the start of the melt season are widely variable
from site to site, but fit within specific mean ranges based on elevation.
The most important ramification is that if the distribution and depth of the snowpack is known on June 1, than summer water resources can be estimated for a wide range of basins
from a limited number of primary
ablation measurement sites.
Accumulation is widely variable and can only be estimated if baseline data is available,
ablation rates are similar in the summer season and can be extrapolated
from primary to secondary sites without substantial baseline data.
June
ablation on South Cascade, Easton and Columbia Glacier, during these same June periods, ranged
from 0.23 - 0.29 m / day, averaging 0.027 m / day.
This paper examines whether maximum winter season snowpack, and snowpack and glacier
ablation, can be determined for secondary locations
from standard locations once baseline data exists for the secondary sites.
The correlation
from glacier to glacier for the same time periods is 0.86 - 0.99, indicating that
ablation conditions are becoming increasingly consistent on glaciers as the summer melt season develops.
From July - September glaciers are the primary area of residual snow and ice
ablation.
May
ablation rates between Snotel sites are poorly correlated as are the daily
ablation rates, correlation coefficients ranging
from 0.43 - 0.76.
Thus, within the elevation zone
from 1400 - 2000 m across the North Cascades
ablation after June 1 has a low degree of variability.
Cross correlation of May monthly
ablation rates between Snotel sites as a result is poor, as are the daily
ablation rates, correlation coefficients ranging
from 0.43 - 0.76.
Ablation rates after June 1 are highly correlated ranging
from 0.73 - 0.92.
Ablation rates and consequent runoff can be assessed
from a few primary sites at glaciated levels
from June 1 - September 31.
The accumulation and
ablation area changes can be explained by SLA position which was continuously moving upward
from 5279 m a.s.l. (s = 144) in 1958 to 5472 m a.s.l. (s = 209) in 2011 with the overall vertical shift of 192 9 m (3.6 m a1).
This is corroborated by ice
ablation data
from an ice mass balance buoy (Figure 2) that was deployed in April near Barrow and has moved through the Chukchi Sea.
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.
A glacier is divided into an
ablation zone where all accumulated snow is lost
from the winter and an accumulation zone where snowpack is retained to the end of the summer.
Mass balance is the difference between annual accumulation and annual
ablation (
from melting and sublimation).
Data
from point measurements are used to develop mathematical relationships between accumulation and
ablation and elevation.