Sentences with phrase «effects of glacier retreat»
The effects of glacier retreat would become evident during the dry season, particularly in the west where glacial melt is more important to the river systems.
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The effects of global warming can be seen in retreating glaciers, threatened animals and plants as well as rising seas.
The retreat of these glaciers in itself will have a negligible effect on sea level, since most of the ice that has retreated was in the water already.
His meticulous — if inadvertent — documentation of the retreat of remote glaciers has helped those studying the effects of climate change.
Most of the field studies cited in support of the dominance of precipitation effects for East African glacier retreat only support the role of precipitation in the initial stages of the retreat, up to the early 1900's.
So, no new alarm bells this time from the glaciologists, but the uncertainties concerning outlet glaciers and the effects of sea ice retreat are still in the air and imply that sea level rise estimates might need to be reconsidered.
We've seen this in glaciers after the loss of the Larsen A and B ice shelves (relatively small shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula), and we've seen a similar effect in Greenland, where the floating end of the glacier, and the fjord choked with calved bergs, could apparently perform a similar braking function, now lost for several rapidly - retreating glaciers.
27 January 2000: The Hektoria Glacier system is stable, but increased summer melting from climate warming in the 1980s and 1990s affected the glacier system in two ways: (1) a seasonal speedup from summer melt water percolating through the glacier ice to its base, and (2) initial retreat of the Larsen Ice Shelf due to the effects of melt ponds (downstream from this image).
We can also observe the effects of global warming in worldwide glacier retreat, declining Arctic ice sheets, sea level rise, warming oceans, ocean acidification, and increased intensity of weather events.
Some possible effects of global warming are the inundation of low - lying islands due to rising sea levels, increased frequency of severe storms and the retreat of glaciers and icecaps.
Although the media now hypes the park's disappearing glaciers as evidence of CO2 warming, the greatest retreats happened long before CO2 could exert any possible effect.
Likewise, the effects on average global temperature and climate of rapidly diminishing albedo evidenced by loss of Arctic sea ice and retreating glaciers, is not accurately known.
Accelerated retreat of glaciers can exert effects worldwide, from causing sea - level rise2, 3,5 to adding freshwater to oceans, both of which can affect weather and ocean cycles in the North Atlantic.7
Re: BRIAN M FLYNN (# 61), Gavin cites glacier retreat as supporting the lack of UHI effect.
I also understood him to say generally that there is «plenty of evidence that there is no substantial UHI effect in any of the large scale indices (Parker, 2004; 2006; ocean changes, glacier retreat etc)».
The UHI effect is real enough, but it is corrected for — and in any case can not effect ocean temperatures, retreating glaciers or phenological changes (all of which confirm significant warming).
Other expected effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, mass species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.
The increases in temperature is causing the retreat of the glaciers to increase at a rate that is effecting the streamflow and runoff in the area.
When I started looking at this topic the first thing that struck me was just how much time is spent in the blogosphere debating the effects (real or imagined) of global temperature rise and how little time seemed to be spent on the key evidential science; as though retreating glaciers, arctic sea - ice or coral bleaching said anything about causality.
These methods include inference of surface temperature change from vertical temperature profiles in the ground (bore holes) at many sites around the world, rate of glacier retreat at many locations, and studies by several groups of the effect of urban and other local human influences on the global temperature record.