Sentences with phrase «for glaciers»

There has even been «a shift to surface mass gains» for glaciers in that region.

With more than twenty years of glaciers from ten different glaciers we have tested a forecasting tool for glacier mass balance.

So what's the mechanism for the glacier melt there?

This holds true for snow and for glacier ice, though the relationships are different.

There's nothing too big or heavy for a glacier to carry.

The ice pack of loose debris used to be year - round, making it previously «hard for glacier to push its way through that,» he said.

The shelves do, however, act as braking systems for glaciers moving on the continent.

Are these on - going changes unprecedented, or are they part of the normal behaviour for the glacier?

The climatic conditions that cause an advance or a retreat may be different for glaciers located in different climate regimes (see Chapter 4).

Designed for glacier travel, the massive Ice Explorer is an all - terrain vehicle that'll take you directly on to a 10,000 year - old sheet of ice.

The other is the recognition that warming ocean temperatures at the grounding line for the glaciers is driving a really strong flow and thus melting response.

That's good because he's right (it is also bad for glaciers and ecosystems that depend on them).

A mass balance map for the entire glacier is then compiled for each glacier.

The decision was based on the existing detailed mass balance maps for each glacier.

The annual glacier mass balance record below indicates that the response of annual balance is quite similar for each glacier.

Data also indicate that the annual balance trend for glaciers was strongly negative from 1984 - 1994 and slightly positive from 1995 - 2000.

And with temperatures barely below freezing at night, the music played 24 - 7 - not a good sign for a glacier.

He says: «However, as far as the mid-19th century is concerned, forcings due to GHG concentrations are insignificant so we are only left with natural forcings (or causes) as an explanation for glacier retreat.»

The creative plan couldn't come at a better time for the glaciers in Italy's Province of Trento, which, like many of the world's glaciers, has seen dramatic decreases in recent decades.

But while there have been scattered good years for the glaciers in which more new ice formed than was lost, the overall average has been permanently negative over the past 50 years, the researchers wrote.

These conditions are ideal for glacier growth in the Northern Hemisphere.

Can a rising sea level can act as a boost for glaciers calving into the sea and trigger a surge of ice into the oceans?

Can a rising sea level can act as a boost for glaciers calving into the sea and trigger a surge of ice into the oceans?

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A footnote was included stating that the assessment of ice loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets includes change in peripheral glaciers, which is excluded from values given for glaciers.

Multi-temporal satellite products and topographic maps were used for glacier terminus, surface and snowline altitude (SLA) analysis from 1958 to 2011.

As for glaciers, that's what happens when the world leaves the LIA.

The caption states that «the principal source of melt energy is solar radiation», which incorrectly implies that the Sun is to blame for glacier shortening.

Bob Thomas (NASA, 2004) and Terry Hughes (University of Maine, 1986) developed the basic mechanism of flow for the glacier that has proven to be true.

As a result, the relative importance of winter precipitation and summer temperature for glacier mass balance on Scandinavian glaciers was probably influenced by the state of the AMO and the NAO, as these two indices are associated with changes in summer temperature (AMO) and winter precipitation (NAO).

«This was a big event, and it confirms that the long - term speed - up that we're observing for this glacier is probably driven by other factors, most likely in the ocean,» said corresponding author Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

Their results yielded two surprises: The melt rate for glaciers and ice caps outside Antarctica and Greenland made a smaller contribution to sea - level rise than had been estimated, and the melt rate in the Asian mountains, including the Himalayas, was dramatically lower: 4 billion tons annually versus up to 50 billion.

A method of dealing with the lack of mass balance measurements is to estimate the changes in mass balance as a function of climate, using mass balance sensitivities (see Box 11.2 for definition) and observed or modelled climate change for glacier covered regions.

Since both quantities are related to the size of the glacier, the time - scale is not necessarily longer for larger glaciers (Raper et al., 1996; Bahr et al., 1998), but it tends to be longer for glaciers in continental climates with low mass turnover (Jóhannesson et al., 1989; Raper et al., 2000).