Sentences with phrase «annual ice accumulation»
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.
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By measuring the thickness of the ice laid down each year, the researchers estimated annual snow accumulation for the past 300 years.
The new study used ice cores to estimate annual snow accumulation from 1712 to 2010 along West Antarctica's coast.
Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica's coastal ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Like a glacier, an ice sheet forms through the accumulation of snowfall, when annual snowfall exceeds annual snowmelt.
Annual balance is the difference between annual snow accumulation and snow - firn - ice melt (ablaAnnual balance is the difference between annual snow accumulation and snow - firn - ice melt (ablaannual snow accumulation and snow - firn - ice melt (ablation).
Equilibrium line - The boundary between the region on a glacier where there is a net annual loss of ice mass (ablation area) and that where there is a net annual gain (accumulation area).
The site was selected after several years of searching because of the depth of the ice sheet there (nearly 3,500 meters) and relatively high annual snowfall accumulations.
This is important information regarding the 1998 mass balance, because 7 - 11 % of the retained annual accumulation is typically in ice lenses.
Elizabeth Thomas, a palaeoclimatologist, and her colleagues report in Geophysical Research Letters that a study of ice corings revealed that annual snow accumulation increased 30 % between 1900 and 2010.
Annual mass balance is the difference between winter snow and ice accumulation on a glacier, and summer snow and ice loss from a glacier during a given year.