Sentences with phrase «continued glacier retreat»

«Continued glacier retreat - only four grow,» Tirol.

Peru's overall demand for electricity is projected to increase an average of 4 percent each year between 2002 and 2030.23 Continued glacier retreat could create critical conditions between 2015 and 2025, affecting water supplies needed for 60 percent of the population and for hydroelectricity generation.20, 10,22

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And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

Thwaites, meanwhile, also continues to rank among of the fastest - shrinking glaciers, and has seen its grounding line retreat rate increase slightly compared to the earlier period, which Konrad said «should emphasize once more that this glacier is under threat.»

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

If tropical glaciers continue to retreat despite an increase in precipitation, that will constitute a powerful case for the role of air temperature.

-LSB-...] «Snow extent and sea - ice are also projected to decrease further in the northern hemisphere, and glaciers and ice - caps are expected to continue to retreat.»

«More sections of the glacier become thinner and float, meaning that the grounding line continues retreating, and so on,» Khazendar explained in the statement.

18 December 2002: As ice shelf retreat continues past the grounding line, the lower portion of the glacier accelerates rapidly.

Andean glaciers are receding.7, 8 Between 1932 and 1994, 10 glaciers in Peru retreated between 1,936 feet (590 meters) and 6,266 feet (1910 m).9 It is possible that many may vanish completely by mid-century if climatic trends continue as they have over the several decades leading up to 2010.6,10,11,, 12,13

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

What is known is that during the period called Little Ice Age, global glacial were advancing, and starting around 1850, instead advancing global glacier became retreating, this trend of glacial retreat continues to the present time, but not all glaciers adding during the Little Ice Age have not yet melted.

We can readily follow the continued advances and retreats of glaciers over the milennia and I did some research on this at Zermatt a few years ago.

If those glaciers continue to retreat, they could set in motion a process without a foreseeable end, researchers say.

The continued retreat at the 50 year retreat rate would eliminate the glacier in 35 - 50 years.

The glacier «has started a phase of self - sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline,» says Gael Durand, a glaciologist with France's Grenoble [continue reading...]

In the short term, retreating glaciers may release greater meltwater, «but it will be exhausted when glaciers disappear under a continuous warming,» says Liu Shiyin, who led the survey for [continue reading...]

The glaciers in the Himalayas will continue to retreat for another 40 - 50 years and if this phenomenon is not checked, temperature will rise by at least four degrees Celsius by the end of this century.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.

The researchers predict that the Zachariae glacier will go on retreating for another 20 to 30 years, while continuing to increase its discharge of ice.

Studies like this tell us that the continued retreat of glaciers allows us to reach one or two hundred years into the future, and gain an appreciation of the changes we are already committed to.»

Mass balance has continued to decline even as the glaciers have retreated.

The total population of ice worms must be decreasing as North Cascade glaciers continue to retreat rapidly and even disappear in some cases.

Their ongoing thinning indicates that all of the glaciers will continue to retreat in the foreseeable future.

More on Mount Kilimanjaro: No Snows on Kilimanjaro by 2030 as Glaciers Continue Their Rapid Retreat Climbing Kilimanjaro to Awaken the World to Water 7 Yr.

In general, glaciers retreat due to a combination of rising temperatures and declining precipitation, but the temperature and precipitation records from the Alps indicated that glaciers should have continued advancing until around 1910.

A second study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reports the widespread retreat of Thwaites and other glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and says the retreat can't help but continue.

Pabitra Mukhopadhyay: When it becomes clear that the increasing risk of GLOFs is the outcome of a global trend in climate change and when it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue reading...]