Sentences with phrase «contributing to sea level rise as»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Melting mountain glaciers contribute to sea level rise as well, but they are of more immediate concern because of their roles in the everyday lives of millions of people.

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The troubled relationship with India, along with its paralytic politics and external factors such as global warming and rising sea levels, contributes to the existential threat faced by Bangladesh.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

«If it had fallen elsewhere not as snow but as rain, it would have contributed to sea level rise,» says Thomas.

The WAIS is of great interest to researchers as two of its largest glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, are draining into the sea and contributing to sea - level rise.

This warming is expected to contribute to rising sea levels and the melting of glaciers and permafrost, as well as other climate - related effects.

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.

But, as the world's glaciers recede, melting ice is also contributing to the rise in sea levels.

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.

A better understanding of these processes could in turn lead to more accurate projections of how Greenland might continue to change in the future, as well as how much sea level rise it might contribute.

«As a result of the acceleration of outlet glaciers over large regions, the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are already contributing more and faster to sea level rise than anticipated,» he observed.

The conclusion that the Greenland ice sheet melting was significantly enhanced by the increased N. Hemispheric insolation during the Eemian affects projections of future (near term) sea level rise insofar as Greenland melt contributed to the Eemian sea level rise.

These glaciers already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.

Global warming - induced sea level rise contributed to the 20 - foot storm surges that caught victims off guard, much as it contributed to Sandy's record 13 - foot coastal surge that flooded substantial sections of New York and New Jersey.

# 146: my understanding is that ice shelf breakup does contribute to eustatic sea - level rise, as you say, but only a little, and less so for larger ice shelves (the anchoring is more distant).

«As a coastal city located on the tip of a peninsula, San Francisco is vulnerable to sea level rise, and human activities releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere cause increases in worldwide average temperature, which contribute to melting of glaciers and thermal expansion of ocean water — resulting in rising sea levels,» the ordinance reads.

Rising sea levels also contribute to the damage inflicted by hurricanes such as as Sandy.

As the years pass, Antarctica's lowering of sea level (by accumulating water as snow and ice) will decrease until eventually (20 years Zwally estimated) Antarctica will start to contribute to sea level risAs the years pass, Antarctica's lowering of sea level (by accumulating water as snow and ice) will decrease until eventually (20 years Zwally estimated) Antarctica will start to contribute to sea level risas snow and ice) will decrease until eventually (20 years Zwally estimated) Antarctica will start to contribute to sea level rise.

In addition to a groundwater base flow driving the current steady rise in sea level, meltwater from retreating Little Ice Age glaciers undoubtedly contributed as well.

As the world's largest store of freshwater, Antarctica has the potential to contribute more than a meter of sea level rise by 2100 and more than 15 metres by 2500, if emissions continue unabated.

At the onset of the deglaciation, a ~ 500 - year long, glacio - eustatic event may have contributed as much as 10 m to sea level with an average rate of about 20 mm / yr... RSL (relative sea level) records indicate that from ~ 7 to 3 ka, GMSL likely rose 2 to 3 m to near present - day levels.

As freshening only contributes significantly to sea level rise in the very coldest waters, warming is the predominant contributor to rising seas associated with AABW changes.

High confidence that glacier mass loss in Alaska and British Columbia is high, contributing 20 % to 30 % as much to sea level rise as does shrinkage of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Rapid melting and retreat of glaciers such as Helheim, in Greenland, contribute to rising sea levels and growing amounts of freshwater in oceans worldwide.

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According to researchers, heavy rains are bad news as they contribute to faster ice melts in the Arctic, consequently hastening the rise of sea levels.

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.

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.

However, within the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, subsidence contributes to relative sea - level rise with rates in east Texas as high as 6.0 mm / yr (Paine, 1993).

Researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine note that these glaciers already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.

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.

«As our world warms,» he claimed, «Greenland's ice will slip faster into the sea, contributing to a rise in sea levels that already threatens hundreds of millions of people living in low - lying nations and coastal cities.»

Icebergs themselves don't contribute to sea level rise; since they float, they're displacing as much water to begin with as they ever will.

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.

The melting of ice that now covers land, such as mountain glaciers, also contributes to the sea - level rise and most likely results from global warming.

But this type of ice loss — known as dynamic thinning — is so ill - understood and difficult to predict that the IPCC, in their 2007 assessment report, threw up their hands and refused to guess how much it would contribute to future sea level rise.

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.

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.