Sentences with phrase «by glaciologists»

«Calculations by glaciologists now suggest that by 2050 most of the Himalayan glaciers will have gone and the impact on dry season flow of those great rivers will be dramatic in the extreme.»

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

An international team led by glaciologists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Trent University in Ontario, Canada has completed the first mapping of virtually all of the world's glaciers — including their locations and sizes — allowing for calculations of their volumes and ongoing contributions to global sea rise as the world warms.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice body in the world, looks likely to push up sea - levels in 2100 up by 3.5 inches, according to new research by glaciologists from the UK and US, published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

If such an error is not denounced by glaciologists from the Scott Polar Institute, that will prove your theory.

This brief overview can only give a flavor of the size and scope of research that has been conducted on West Antarctic ice streams and ice ridges by the glaciologists honored by ACAN.

«Assumptions were always previously based on observations by glaciologists and other researchers.

Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic data...

Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic data for 20 major glaciers within 10 fjords in southeast Greenland.

Another alternative has been suggested by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies west Antarctica's Whillans Ice Sheet, among other glaciers.

Studies by glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine and others suggest that ice sheets could melt faster than scientists initially thought.

All of these observations match the response, predicted in the late 1970s by glaciologist John Mercer, of the Antarctic to anthropogenic global warming.

(Left photo by glaciologist William O. Field; right photo by geologist Bruce F. Molnia of the United States Geological Survey.)

The study, led by glaciologist Eric Rignot at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, follows decades of research and theory suggesting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is inherently vulnerable to change.

According to NASA that study, headed by glaciologist and lead author Eric Rignog, said:

One group, led by geologist Michael Willis, of Cornell University, and another team led by glaciologist Ian Howat, of Ohio State University, report in two different journals on separate but related studies of Greenland's plumbing system: what happens to meltwater.

Not exact matches

«That in itself doesn't mean something is wrong» with the result, says Jonathan Bamber, a glaciologist at Bristol, who co-authored the recent paper led by Martin - Español.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

By 2001, glaciologists had built up a three - dimensional picture of Greenland's bedrock, but the resolution was fairly poor so many features were invisible, says Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK.

«Everyone was fooled by the collapse of a mountain,» says Martin Luethi, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, who has been studying Greenland's glaciers since 1995.

His beard is full and his skin darkened by the ultraviolet rays that glaciologists come to expect from working on a reflective ice sheet in 24 - hour sunlight.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

The team's study complements an earlier study led by Jason Roberts, a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Division at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

A British team directed by University of Edinburgh glaciologist Martin Siegert of the British Antarctic Survey returned from Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth last week, where it dropped off a drill, 3400 meters of hose, a giant hot water boiler, and four 1.5 megawatt generators.

«This was a big event, and it confirms that the long - term speed - up that we're observing for this glacier is probably driven by other factors, most likely in the ocean,» said corresponding author Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

Brussels, October 3rd, 2012 - A young German glaciologist was tonight presented with the prestigious $ 150,000 InBev - Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship [1], by His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium, for his proposal...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, discovered the hypersaline lakes while looking for subglacial continents in the Devon Ice Cap.

The first scientists arrive by aircraft on November 19th, including German glaciologist Dr Reinhard Drews who makes his second trip to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica as part of his InBev Baillet Latour Antarctic Fellowship.

«As glaciologists and glacial geologists, we respond to the article «Glaciers — science and nonsense» by Cliff Ollier in the March issue of Geoscientist1.

The EoC for «Asia's glaciers are a regionally important buffer against drought,» published by Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, came out today.

The show's title, Augur, plays between the words «augur» — to portend a good or bad outcome of an event or circumstance, to foresee or predict — and «auger» — a hand tool often used by soil scientists, geologists and glaciologists to bore holes into the earth.

With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth - century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

The push back from glaciologists on this issue was a good example of how the science community can organise and provide corrections of high - profile mis - statements by non-scientists — by connecting directly with journalists, providing easy access to the real data, and tracking down the source of the confusion.

Variations in the literature abound with regard to the precise definition, and the term is often used by paleoclimatologists and glaciologists without formal dates attached.

Please read this sober paper on glaciers and climate by french professor and glaciologist Robert Vivian... sorry it is in french: http://virtedit.online.fr/article.html In a follow - up article he starts saying «No, glaciers do not risk disappearing!»

I am not a Glaciologist but a Climatologist and the statement attributed to me in «Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified» By David Rose in UK Daily Mail on 24th January 2010 has been wrongly placed.

[Insert, May 14, 6:45 a.m. I encourage you to read two superb explanatory posts by Antarctic post-doctoral researcher Bethan Davies describing the research and glaciologists» use of «collapse.»]

The story of the farmers and the Aletsch was told to me by Marcus Aellen, a glaciologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, which sits on a hill overlooking the tourist - clogged alleys along the banks of Zurich's Limmat River.

Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, «None of this has been predicted by numerical models, and therefore all projections of the contribution of Greenland to sea level [rise] are way below reality.»

Yao Tandong, a leading Chinese glaciologist, predicts that two thirds of China's glaciers could be gone by 2060.

In an article published three years earlier, Russian glaciologist Vladimir Kotlyakov did in fact predict a massive decline in the area covered by glaciers, but not until the year 2350.

This is a view shared by Prof Peter Nienow, a glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh, who said: «The significant warming being seen in many places across the planet makes it unlikely that the recent warming reported in this paper is due just to local natural variability.»

The new finding appears to be the fulfillment of a prediction made in 1978 by an eminent glaciologist, John H. Mercer of the Ohio State University.

Glaciologists analyzed ice flow to the ocean from 1991 to 2015 in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, and found that surface melt grew by a whopping 900 percent, or 10 times, in the 10 years between 2005 and 2015, increasing to 30 gigatons per year by the end of that time.

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

Early studies by geologists and glaciologists attempted to find a climate mechanism to explain the evidence of massive ice sheets during the recent Ice Age.

In December, it emerged that four leading glaciologists had prepared a letter for publication in the journal Science arguing that a complete melt by 2035 was physically impossible.

Penn State University glaciologist Richard B. Alley is the winner of the initial Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication, administered by Climate One, a sustainability initiative of the nonprofit Commonwealth Club of California.