Sentences with phrase «by ice retreats»

Record seasonal retreats of sea ice northward into the Chukchi and Beaufort seas were reported for 2002 - 2005 [258], but they were exceeded by ice retreats in 2007 and 2008 [255].

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By then, and in just the previous few decades, northern sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf had «retreated significantly,» said Jacobs.

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By reading the ups and downs of organic versus nonorganic sediment in a core, sedimentologists can follow the retreats and advances of ice over the past 20,000 years.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glacieIce Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabIce Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

The incident, which was monitored and recorded by satellite images, aerial photography and a research vessel navigating through the resulting icebergs, is the largest single event in a 30 - year series of ice shelf retreats in the area.

One response to this warming, scientists say, is the retreat of five ice shelves, including Larsen B. «Since [1998], warming on the peninsula has continued and we watched as piece - by - piece Larsen B has retreated,» David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey says.

This is very important, as plants captured by the advancing ice cap 6,000 years ago are now emerging along its retreating margins, which shows that Quelccaya is now smaller than it has been in six thousand years.

Around 11,000 years ago, as the last ice sheets retreated from Norway and the Norwegian Sea, Atlantic water flowed in and warmed the bottom by about 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

The advance and retreat of ice sheets is paced by cyclical changes in the shape of Earth's orbit.

The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.

Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland Seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean, and could ultimately impact the climate in Europe, says a new study by an atmospheric physicist from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) and his colleagues in Great Britain, Norway and the United States.

The overall retreat of several kilometers that has occurred over the past 20,000 years was interrupted by a stillstand or a re-advance of several hundred years at the beginning of the ACR, and then by increasingly minor glacial episodes at the end of the YD, at the beginning of the Holocene (around 10,000 years ago) and during the Little Ice Age (13th to 19th centuries).

Data collected by ship and model simulations suggest that increased Pacific Winter Water (PWW), driven by circulation patterns and retreating sea ice in the summer season, is primarily responsible for this OA expansion, according to Di Qi, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student of Liqi Chen, the lead PI in China.

When the glacier starts to retreat, the frontal moraines are no longer protected by the ice, and a sort of «geological chronometer» is triggered, as the rocks begin to accumulate beryllium - 10 and helium - 3 produced by particles resulting from cosmic rays.

Under these conditions, a disproportionately rapid retreat of summertime sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean over the course of the next few decades, followed by its complete disappearance — depending on how quickly CO2 levels rise — roughly 250 years from now, is to be expected.

«Throughout the region, they have retreated by close to a kilometer since the last ice age, and are predicted to disappear in the next one to three decades.

Melting of the smaller Greenland Ice Sheet can only explain a fraction of this sea - level rise, most which must have been caused by retreat on Antarctica.»

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according to a new study that uses data from instruments that fly aboard several NASA satellites.

«The Arctic is governed by international agreements, but now that the ice is retreating it's getting a lot more interesting,» says APL field engineer Keith Magness (observing, second from right).

Retreating Ice Glacier National Park, Montana Most of the ice that carved Glacier National Park's ridges and valleys melted more than 10,000 years ago, but by the time fur trappers ventured into the area in the 1800s, new glaciers had formIce Glacier National Park, Montana Most of the ice that carved Glacier National Park's ridges and valleys melted more than 10,000 years ago, but by the time fur trappers ventured into the area in the 1800s, new glaciers had formice that carved Glacier National Park's ridges and valleys melted more than 10,000 years ago, but by the time fur trappers ventured into the area in the 1800s, new glaciers had formed.

The underwater faces of the different glaciers retreated by between 0.7 and 3.9 metres each day, representing 20 times more ice than melts off the top of the glacier.

And she describes sobering trends: The projection that Switzerland will lose more than half of its small glaciers in the next 25 years; the substantial retreat of glaciers from the Antarctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, Greenland and the Arctic; the disappearance of iconic glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, or reduction to chunks of ice that no longer move (by definition, a glacier must be massive enough to move).

By 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contenBy 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contenby 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contend.

«We found that the Antarctic ice sheet had an uneven effect on the global sea level because its growth resulted in a complex interplay between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by ice advance and retreat,» he says.

We determine that this difference is driven by the growth and retreat of large continental ice sheets that are present in the cold ice - age climates; these ice sheets reflect a lot of sunlight and their growth consequently amplifies the impact of CO2 changes.»

This remarkable correlation is supported by observations by other scientific teams who had already observed traces of glacier melting and retreat, as well as evidence of subsurface ice, in the former polar regions.

Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers.

Gerhard Kuhn, co-author of the study, said, «Our results provide evidence that in the past, [West Antarctic Ice Sheet -RCB- retreat was also predominantly caused by melting through warm ocean water.»

By matching these isotope ratios to the astronomical cycle — Earth's orbit oscillates between an elliptical and circular path on a roughly 400,000 - year cycle — the researchers found that patterns of glaciation and ice retreat followed the eccentricity of our planet's orbitthey report in the December 22 Science.

Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice - sheet instability.

It will cover both environmental protection and economic development — including oil exploration and shipping made possible by retreating ice.

Ice sheet retreat continues until a new equilibrium temperature state is reached, one determined largely by the end - point of atmospheric CO2.

Episodic retreat is recorded by mega-scale glacial lineations that are overprinted by transverse grounding - zone wedges, each recording a pause in ice stream retreat with a stationary grounding line.

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

Current predictions [5], [6] suggest that trends in sea ice extent will alter in the second half of this century and that the annual average sea ice extent will diminish by 33 %; most of this retreat is expected to occur in winter and spring [5], [6], with attendant risks for emperor penguins.

More specifically, using digital scans of paper maps based on aerial imagery acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey, along with modern - day satellite imagery from a variety of platforms, the authors digitized a total of 49 maps and images from which they calculated changes in the terminus positions, ice speed, calving rates and ice front advance and retreat rates from 34 glaciers in this region over the period 1955 - 2015.

Ice shelves in West Antarctica, in particular, face a potentially rapid retreat driven by warm water intruding and eating away at ice from belIce shelves in West Antarctica, in particular, face a potentially rapid retreat driven by warm water intruding and eating away at ice from belice from below.

She retreats to the North to rule as the Ice Queen, where she wears fabulously glittery gowns and builds an army by kidnapping children and forcing them to become her huntsmen (and women).

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing, named by Lonely Planet as one of the Top 10 World Parks, simmers with andesitic volcanoes, freezing crater lakes and retreating glaciers from the ice age.

By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay.

It has by no means been proven that the Little Ice Age had the same degree of spatial coherence of advance as does the current retreat.

Gavin disputes that the main driver of the sea ice retreat is the albedo flip, but we are seeing not only polar amplification of global warming but positive feedback, which would not be explained simply by radiative forces and ocean currents.

Elsewhere, where Revkin wrote that most scientists agree that «for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans,» it would have been more accurate to state that the agreement is for the most part only that the beginning phase of the retreat was not caused by humans.

Polar bears may be endangered by hunting, but they are not endangered by the retreat of the summer Arctic sea ice.

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

But on the bright side, he noted, in a joking reference to the meeting's Danish hosts, the retreat of the sheath of ice covering Greenland, which is Danish - controlled territory, «would increase your usable land by, I don't know, 10,000 percent.»

As temperatures warmed slightly due to insolation changes caused by orbital cycles, ice sheets retreated slightly.