Sentences with phrase «calving patterns»

Bassis, J. N., & Jacobs, S. (2013) Diverse calving patterns linked to glacier geometry.

It's also possible that the calving patterns mean more than the total mass of the ice.

Not exact matches

For centuries Larsen B seems to have followed a pattern of «growing like a fingernail until it calved an iceberg every 50 years or so,» Scambos says.

The ridgetop camera will record the pattern of iceberg calving.

Larsen C may follow a similar pattern, he says, although it's not clear how soon collapse might follow the imminent calving event.

Antarctica holds about 60 percent of the world's fresh water, so any pattern of increased melting and calving has profound implications for cities and countries across the world.

In discussing their findings, Fountain et al. report that «no significant spatial or temporal patterns of terminus position, flow speed, or calving emerged, implying that the conditions associated with ice tongue stability are unchanged,» at least over the past six decades.

Changes in serum progesterone patterns during the short luteal cycles initiated after calving and relationship to conception in buffalo - cows by Noseir, W.M.B.

Similar patterns of ice calving and retreat leading to rapid glacier acceleration have also been observed in Greenland.