Sentences with phrase «for glaciers in that region»

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

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Australian soils are deficient in vital nutrients including nitrogen, phosphorus, and zinc, mainly because the region is so old, even in geologic time, and most of the country has not been revitalized by the soil - renewing activity of volcanoes or glaciers for tens of millions of years.

Warnings for shipping Molnia said a system for such tracking of glaciers could provide important warning for shipping in the region as calving, and the formation of icebergs, increases.

Willenbring noted that the new date for the glacier maximum in the Mediterranean region, which is several thousands of years earlier than the date the maximum was reached in central Europe, will help provide more context for creating accurate global climate models.

A team of researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø (Norway), have now discovered that large - scale sedimentation caused by melting of glaciers in a region off Norway has played a greater role in gas hydrate dissociation than warming ocean waters.

Working with Head, Marchant, and Lionel Wilson from the Lancaster Environmental Centre in the U.K., Scanlon looked for evidence that hot volcanic lava may have flowed in the region the same time that the glacier was present.

That could mean less food in the long run for a region that is extremely dependent on the glaciers for agricultural purposes.

Around 1 billion people rely on glacier flows for water, farming and energy in the Himalayas and surrounding regions of Asia, according to

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

«The signal of future glacier change in the region is clear: continued and possibly accelerated mass loss from glaciers is likely given the projected increase in temperatures,» Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, who led the study, said in a statement.

Malone was the principal author on a U.S. Agency for International Development report, Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Glacier Melt Impacts, which assessed how USAID programs could respond to the effects of climate change in this region of the world.

The highest range in the region, and the one with the biggest glacier system in the U.S portion of the chain, your trip will provide all the impressive vistas these mountains are known for without the big crowds.

A more regional focus is explored through the loss of glaciers in The Glacier National Park and then then students investigate the evidence for a much greener North African region and what the consequence of this is for the future.

We also see the turquoise waters of Maligne Lake, the largest glacier - fed body of water in the region, before we rejoin The Canadian in the late afternoon, bound for Toronto.

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When the Chile quake happened, I thought perhaps serious glacier melt in the region may have contributed somewhat to the quake's intensity, and perhaps the same might be for Himalayan quakes.

[Response: Someone may have a more precise definition but it's basically the relatively straight part of the glacier (think, «river») below the large, usually more circular catchment area (think «watershed») and the «toe» region (typically an ice shelf for the glaciers in question here).

Terran: An examination of a map of glacier velocity for either the Pine Island presented in this post or of the ice streams feeding the Ross Ice Shelf indicate that most of the ice sheet region is not a fast flow region.

The most intriguing result is that meltwater is not the reason for the acceleration of the outlet glaciers (it appears to play a main role in the broader flatter regions).

The detailed piece brought back memories of my visit to the same region in 1993 to write a feature for Condé Nast Traveler Magazine on how the vanishing of these great glaciers was challenging the identity of the Swiss.

The bottom line — in sync with other recent analysis — is that the region is seeing a mix of changes, with glaciers growing in some places and shrinking in others and impacts on water supplies mostly inconsequential for decades to come.

The Andean glaciers are a primary source of freshwater for tens of millions of people in the region, which spans from Venezuela down along the western coast of the continent to Chile.

In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009In other regions, warm sub-surface ocean water was shown to be responsible for thinning glaciers as they went afloat, resulting in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009in rapid acceleration of a broad area of the glacier (Pritchard et al. 2009).

In the Himalayas of Kashmir, scientist Shakil Ahmad Romshoo fears for the future of the pristine region which relies heavily on its more than 100 glaciers for water.

When estimating the global contribution of glaciers to sea level by multiplying the values measured in the field with the area of the respective region, a representativeness of 1.0 is assumed for the field data.

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.

«The ongoing recession of Andean glaciers will become increasingly problematic for regions depending on water resources supplied by glaciered mountain catchments, particularly in Peru,» the researchers wrote.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

An August 2008 Geophysical Research Letters study that examined the impact of the melting Himalayan Naimona «nyi glacier concluded, «If Naimona «nyi is characteristic of other glaciers in the region, alpine glacier meltwater surpluses are likely to shrink much faster than currently predicted with substantial consequences for approximately half a billion people.»

One would think that when the glaciers in the mountains are locked in winter's icy grip and therefore not melting any, the rivers that they are a part of continue to run water from springs, rainfall and snow melt from lower regions of the mountains and for sure they do not «dry up» like these people would want the illogical to believe and believe they do.

Taken together, the data: 1) do not support the summer insolation hypothesis to explain Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Patagonia; 2) confirm paleobotanical evidence for a warm, dry early Holocene; and 3) suggest that some glaciers in the region reached extents comparable to those of the Little Ice Age shortly before 5.29 e5.05 ka.

But, their paper concludes, «the signal for future glacier change in the region is clear and compelling».

LONDON, 9 April — The glaciers of the tropical Andes have shrunk by between 30 and 50 % in 30 years and many will soon disappear altogether, cutting off the summer water supply for millions of people, according to scientists studying the region's climate.

Change in a previously unknown region that turns out to be globally typical — «Subantarctic Glaciers Not Surprising» — is difficult to sell as a motive for political action.

Using UAVs to study the Lirung glacier in Nepal's Langtang region, scientists from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Research, Kathmandu, have shown that glacial melt water [continue reading...]

That could mean less food in the long run for a region that is extremely dependent on the glaciers for agricultural purposes.

Around 1 billion people rely on glacier flows for water, farming and energy in the Himalayas and surrounding regions of Asia, according to

Figure 4: While data are lacking for a good understanding of the patterns of change in the glaciers of the Himalayas, there are some generalizations that can be made about the different regions of this vast area.

This review proposes the need for the scientific evidence pertaining to the region's glacier systems to be approached objectively in the future, such that a robust assessment of change can be attained.

Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security explains that changes in the availability of water resources could play an increasing role in political tensions, especially if existing water management institutions do not better account for the social, economic, and ecological complexities of the region.

Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds.

The looming loss of the glaciers is a major problem for the people living in arid regions west of the Andes, Rabatel said.