Sentences with phrase «contributing to sea»

«After the collapse of Larsen B, its tributary glaciers accelerated, contributing to sea - level rise.»

Groundwater depletion will soon be as important a factor in contributing to sea - level rise as the melting of glaciers other than those in Greenland and Antarctica, scientists say.

Arch — The findings, which researchers said do not change the fact that the ice sheet is losing mass overall and contributing to sea level rise, were published in the journal Science.

It is still shedding mass and contributing to sea - level rise.

Scientists at this very moment are observing glaciers melting several times faster than before and sea levels rising dangerously fast, contributing to sea level rise and increased extreme weather around the world.

Her work provides an important piece of the puzzle of how glaciers move, what makes them speed up, and how they are contributing to sea level rise as the climate warms.

Here in Australia, our second government channel SBS reported it as flaws in the IPCC and one of the things noted was the way ice melts are contributing to sea level rise.

Such warming causes seawater to expand, contributing to sea level rise

Since many think that human - produced carbon dioxide is warming the planet and contributing to sea level rise, they wanted to make it clear that if the world doesn't do something to curb emissions, their island nation could soon be underwater.

CO; 2 Observations of the Infrared Radiative Properties of the Ocean «[I] t is necessary to understand the physical variables contributing to sea surface emitted and reflected radiation to space.The emissivity of the ocean surface varies with view angle and sea state, the reflection of sky radiation also depends on view angle and sea state, and the absorption of atmospheric constituents such as water vapor, aerosols, and subdivisible clouds affect transmittance.»

CO2 is also contributing to sea level rise because as CO2 enters the ocean, it warms up the water and the water expands, and when it expands it has to go somewhere meaning the ocean will get bigger and our beaches will get smaller.

Satellite and direct measurements now demonstrate that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing rate.

When land ice melts, meltwater flows into the ocean, contributing to sea level rise.

Most mountain glaciers worldwide are losing mass, contributing to sea - level rise.

Concern is raised by recent inferences from gravity measurements that the WAIS is losing mass (39), and observations that glaciers draining into the Amundsen Sea are losing 60 % more ice than they are gaining and hence contributing to sea - level rise (40).

The thinning of floating ice shelves around Antarctica enhances upstream ice flow, contributing to sea - level rise.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

Differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise have been resolved by a...

The Huffington Post: Greenland and Antarctica are home to the two largest ice sheets in the world, and a new report released Wednesday says that they are contributing to sea level rise twice as much as they were just five years ago.

But right now it is also contributing to sea level rise at a faster rate.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)

Also shown are the various components contributing to sea level rise (Church and White 2011)

«Greenland ice takes on a new role in the climate change story, not just indicating change and contributing to sea level rise, but possibly playing an important role in destabilizing regional if not global ocean circulation that naturally exchanges heat north - south,» said Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and a study co-author, in an email to Mashable.

Antarctic ice is actually gaining in ice so is not contributing to sea level as you assert.

A well - known example of this is the melting of land - based ice, which is contributing to sea - level rise (and adding to the effects of thermal expansion of the oceans), with implications for low - lying areas far beyond the polar and mountain regions where the melting is taking place.

Some of the conclusions are that the deep oceans are not rising in temperature nor contributing to sea level rise.

It's this glacier acceleration that's responsible for most of the increase in ice loss from the continent and this is contributing to sea - level rise.»

Melting of glaciers and ice sheets is also contributing to sea level rise at increasing rates.6

These measurements, Mann said, suggest the Antarctic ice sheet is already losing mass and contributing to sea level rise.

There is also some suggestion that historic groundwater depletions may also be contributing to sea levels: http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-25/issue-5/groundwater-development-flow-modeling/groundwater-depletion-linked-to-rising.html

When ice breaks off the Pine Island Glacier, he said, more ice can flow in faster from the mountains above — ice that will eventually wind up contributing to sea level rise.

The mere third of the 1 % of planetary land ice in the Arctic archipelago is disproportionately contributing to sea level rise as it melts much faster than the colder, bigger ice caps.

Satellite and direct measurements now demonstrate that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice - sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing rate.

She has conducted extensive research on the two largest masses of ice on Earth — the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets — with the goal of understanding how these entities are shrinking and contributing to sea level rise as the planet's climate warms.

Without accounting for recharge vs discharge, the much smaller estimates of all the other factors contributing to sea level rise are simply not well constrained.

NASA determined Antarctica was not contributing to sea level rise, it was actually reducing it.

In the paper the authors argue that there is no evidence for a speed up of the ice marginal zone due to enhanced ablation rates, which by some people was explained as if Greenland was not contributing to sea level change any more.

Land - based ice in glaciers and ice - sheets will keep contributing to sea level rise as long as melting exceeds snowfall accumulation; stopping the growth of temperature would not stop the net melting.

How much is groundwater contributing to sea level rise?

Rising Seas: Warmer ocean water temperatures, the pumping of ground water, and melting of the polar ice sheets have added water to the oceans, contributing to sea level rise.

Satellite and direct measurements now demonstrate that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice - sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing rate.

This melts the ice shelf from below24, and this melting is probably the cause of the observed ice stream thinning, acceleration and grounding line recession25, which is contributing to a sea level rise of 1.2 mm per decade3.

GRACE - FO and ICESat - 2 will use radically different techniques to observe how the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are changing over time and how much they are contributing to sea level rise.

However, if the remaining ice shelf collapses or starts losing mass more rapidly, it could effectively unplug the glaciers next to the shelf, sending land - based ice into Southern Ocean, and contributing to sea level rise.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

It also causes the water itself to expand — so - called thermal expansion — contributing to a sea level rise of 0.17 meter (nearly seven inches) in the 20th century.

«At different points, they could be contributing to the sea level story or against it,» says Haywood.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

Climate change is driving the Greenland Ice Sheet to melt, which is contributing to sea level rise.

The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.