Sentences with phrase «by sea ice melting»

Could we be looking at any fairly abrupt changes to the jet stream, possibly triggered by sea ice melting or stratospheric changes?

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He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualIce Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

Such erosion can result from any number of factors, including the simple inundation of the land by rising sea levels resulting from the melting of the polar ice caps.

Satellite data show that, between 1979 and 2013, the summer ice - free season expanded by an average of 5 to 10 weeks in 12 Arctic regions, with sea ice forming later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring.

An article in the March issue of Oceanography, authored by scientists from Cornell and Rutgers universities, points to 2012's unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt as the root cause of the events that transformed a relatively modest storm into a destructive force (ClimateWire, Sept. 20, 2012).

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

A recent study by Robert Kopp at Princeton University (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08686) suggests sea levels were 8 to 9 metres higher than now during the last interglacial, in part due to the west Antarctic ice sheet melting.

«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.

Take Holland: It will be much more heavily influenced by Antarctic ice melt than by falling sea levels around Greenland, says Jerry Mitrovica, a geophysicist and sea level modeler at Harvard University.

This is reassuring, because if the ice cap did melt completely in the near future, it would raise global sea levels by 60 metres.

How long these under - ice explosions of life have been going on is uncertain, he adds, because it is not year clear how closely tied the blooms are to the thinning sea ice and proliferating melt ponds caused by global climate change.

The rule in question was finalized by the Bush administration in December, six months after the polar bear was declared a threatened species due to the melting of its sea - ice habitat.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

At the other end of the world, the recent satellite data show that the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated from 2.5 per cent per decade, as shown by the Nimbus data, to 4.3 per cent per decade.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

«We must do all we can to help the polar bear recover, recognizing that the greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change,» Salazar said.

Given that we now have several years more data, we can essentially «test» the IPCC predictions and we arrive at the conclusion (i.e., message 1) that the climate system is tracking the «worst case scenario» (or worse in the case of ice melt and sea - level rise) presented by the IPCC.

Rising global temperatures, ice field and glacial melting and rising sea levels are among the climatic changes that could ultimately lead to the submergence of coastal areas that are home to 1.3 billion people today, according to the report, published online today by the journal Nature Climate Change.

Melting can be rapid: as the last ice age ended, the disappearance of the ice sheet covering North America increased sea level by more than a metre per century at times.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people who live close to coasts.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

Although we will not see immediate effects by tomorrow — some of the slow processes will only respond over centuries to millennia — the consequences for long - term ice melt and sea level rise could be substantial.

A big «hole» appeared in August in the ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal ice surrounded by thicker, older ice melted.

As the sea ice melts, its white reflective surface is replaced by a relatively dark ocean surface.

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.»

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheice of the East Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

Global average sea level has risen by roughly 0.11 inch (3 millimeters) per year since 1993 due to a combination of water expanding as it warms and melting ice sheets.

Aquarius will be able to measure changes in salinity caused by evaporation, rain and snow, and melting sea ice.

Last Friday afternoon, on a conference call hosted by the National Research Council to present a recent report on the Arctic region, Stephanie Pfirman, an environmental science professor at Barnard College, said Arctic ice coverage is shrinking and that thicker sea ice blocks, which anchor much of the landscape, are rapidly melting.

Arctic sea ice melt fueled by ever - rising global temperatures is also opening the already fragile region to increased shipping traffic and may be affecting weather patterns over Europe, Asia and North America.

If all the ice in Greenland were to melt in coming decades (an unlikely scenario), it would raise sea levels by seven meters (more than 20 feet)-- enough to swamp New Orleans, Florida's coast, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, among other low - lying lands.

The model correctly predicted the extent of the resulting Arctic ice melt, enough to raise sea levels by roughly nine feet.

Current estimates of sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consider only the effect of melting ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention in water storage on land.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

Sea levels have been rising worldwide over the past century by between 10 and 20 centimetres, as a result of melting land - ice and the thermal expansion of the oceans due to a planetary warming of around 0.5 degreeC.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

The research team, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), suspects that melting sea ice has left more open water near the coast for winds to create waves.

This raises the question of what is happening to Antarctica's ice sheets, which hold enough water to raise sea level by a catastrophic 61 metres, should it all melt.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study by UC Irvine and others has found.

(This status allowed the Administration to create a special rule exempting greenhouse gas emissions — which are, through global warming, melting the artic sea ice used by the polar bears for hunting — from regulation under the Endangered Species Act.)

Fossil fuel burning, deforestation and farming have increased temperatures by nearly 2 °F during the past two centuries and caused ice to melt into the seas, causing them to rise at a quickening pace.