Sentences with phrase «altitude glaciers»

Lower - altitude glaciers below about 17,700 feet (5400 meters) above sea level are melting twice as fast as those at higher elevations.

I'm unsure, but this seems analogous to the ice sheet issue — for example, under what climate regime would tropical high - altitude glaciers re-form?

«Because the maximum thickness of these small, low - altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,» said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.

«The snow and ice stored within the magnificent arc of high - altitude glaciers in the Greater Himalaya are crucial sources of seasonal water for almost every major river system of Asia,» the society says in materials promoting the exhibition.

In the west side glacier group the poorest fit are Columbia Glacier and Lower Curtis Glacier both low altitude glaciers.

«Because the maximum thickness of these small, low - altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 meters [131 feet,] with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,» Rabatel said.

The study, which examined about half of the Andean glaciers, found that the phenomenon was more strongly pronounced among smaller, lower altitude glaciers, which it said could vanish altogether within decades or even years.

Nick Gotts >... disappearance of high - altitude glaciers and snows on which around 1/6 of the world's population depend for water supply; drought - affected areas increasing; flood events increasing; disruption of fisheries; increase in malarial areas.

Park guards view maps and photos of high - altitude glaciers — information that can be shared with local communities dealing with changing water levels.

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people depend on high - altitude glaciers for their water supply.

Despite these conditions, the Tarim river flows through this desert region, mainly fed by meltwater from high - altitude glaciers.

Not exact matches

I hadn't worried on the last glacier; why should I worry on this one just because it was at a greater altitude?

Part of the problem is reaching glaciers that sit at high altitudes.

The most - studied Himalayan glaciers are largely the most accessible, often those at lower altitudes, the USAID report said.

Lead researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty of French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).

While Earth was much warmer millions of years ago, glaciers still existed in the high altitudes.

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.

The new study confirms that so - called «starving glaciers» in dry, high - altitude environments are indeed controlled by precipitation.

A glaciologist doesn't let a heart transplant keep him from braving dizzying altitudes to gather crucial ice core samples from retreating tropical and subtropical glaciers

Pictured: Visitors walk in front of the Rhone glacier near the Furka mountain pass (2429 metres / 7969 feet altitude) in the Swiss Alps August 6, 2015.

The first one I looked at is an «own goal» for the contrarians, as it involves Phil Jones bemoaning the discrepancy between glacier retreat in high altitudes, and comparative lack of warming in the UAH troposphere record.

Other areas which have lower altitudes and less pronounced glaciers also have fjords or fjord - like features.

Experience an unforgettable evening with an exclusive adults - only tour that includes appetizers on the glacier, then a delicious dinner inside Altitude Restaurant.

We got our first taste of what it feels like to hike at altitude, marvelled at the magical — almost surreal — colour of Laguna 69, touched a glacier, and were witness to the colourful festivities in celebration of el Señor de la Soledad.

One of these high - altitude, glacier - fed, emerald green lakes is Peyto Lake (pronounced pee - toh).

In the Canadian Rockies you will find numerous pristine high altitude lakes that are fed by the clear, cold, crystal waters of the Canada's glaciers.

Due to its altitude, Tignes has a very reliable snow record with snow - sure slopes and superb glacier skiing.

Most of the low latitudes glaciers are necessarily at very high altitudes, and many have both high accumulation rate and very cold temperatures.

To give another, more specific example, at a typical glacier on Mt. Baker, in Washington State, a summer temperature increase of 1 °C translates to a ~ 150 m increase in the altitude of the equilibrium line (the point where annual ice accumulation = annual loss), and a resulting ~ 2 km retreat of the glacier terminus.

The next ingredient needed to make a tropical glacier is precipitation, which at high, cold altitudes will fall as snow.

The reason there are tropical glaciers at all is that temperature decreases with altitude, as a consequence of the compressibility of air.

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

Please see / / chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/bamsmosquito.pdf, which depicts the biological «fingerprint» study (where data matches models) and the confluence of data on montane glacier retreat, upward migration of plant communities and, mosquitoes at high altitudes and warming at same.

Generally speaking things look bad, what with the West Antarctic ice sheet slip - sliding away into the tropics, the Greenland glaciers retreating, animals beating a retreat to the coolth of higher altitudes and latitudes, and a host of other apocalyptic signals.

Lynch Glacier and Rainbow Glacier have the least negative mean annual balance and highest mean accumulation zone altitude of the eight glaciers.

The longitude and latitude of each glacier is noted in degrees and minutes, the mean slope of the glacier surface, the mean altitude of the glacier, and the surface area of the glacier are also listed.

Did you know that the ice cap on Greenland is at far higher altitudes than required for there to be an glacier, same at Antarctic.

Bolivia, which is home to 20 percent of the world's tropical glaciers (glaciers that are located at high altitudes around the equator), is clearly panicked by the rapidity of glacial melt.

From the head of the glacier at 1300 m to the mean Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA) at an elevation of 1050 - 1100 m the glacier flows northward.

Multi-temporal satellite products and topographic maps were used for glacier terminus, surface and snowline altitude (SLA) analysis from 1958 to 2011.

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.

For me, the most convincing actual physical evidence (living in Switzerland) is carbon - dated remains of old trees found under receding glaciers at altitudes far above today's tree - line.

The mean annual air temperature at the long - term ELA of 1170 m is -1.5 °C, as estimated from the Wolverine weather station at 990 m altitude about 0.5 km west of the glacier.

some lower - altitude HKH glaciers are shrinking (including some that are important for irrigation in the Indus basin), as are glaciers that supply the Tarim oases.

Rich, some lower - altitude HKH glaciers are shrinking (including some that are important for irrigation in the Indus basin), as are glaciers that supply the Tarim oases.

«It's a dramatic change as there are many glaciers below this altitude in the Swiss Alps today,» he explained.

The melting of mountain glaciers, particularly in the Himalayas, with the consequent forming of high altitude lakes.

Glaciers, especially those still at altitude (the lowest already having melted) alter «melt rate» however as the Permanent Ice level rises through the Atmosphere.

It explains why, in glaciers that are mostly cold, the ice at high altitude in the accumulation zone is usually warmer than the ice at lower altitude in the ablation zone.

Sheep and dairy farming further north than practical today (Nuuk area Greenland) Treelines higher than at present (Scandinavia) Deciduous forests (oak, hornbeam) further north than at present (Sweden, Finland) Grape cultivation further north than practical today (Yorkshire, perhaps southern Norway) Farmsteads at higher altitudes than practical today (Britain) or even overrun by glaciers since (Norway) Citrus trees and other subtropical crops cultivated further north than possible today (China) Driftwood deposited on beaches currently blocked by permanent shelf - ice (Ellesmere land)