Sentences with phrase «for small glaciers»

Overall, the outlook is bleak for small glaciers everywhere.

The melting is most pronounced for small glaciers at altitudes below 17,000 feet, he said, which have lost an average of 4.4 feet of ice thickness per year.

Not exact matches

For smaller oysters with crisp, clean flavors, you'll want oysters from colder, cleaner waters and narrower, smaller waterways, she says: «Think: glaciers and fjords, places where you can see through the water.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

Glaciers contribute a relatively small amount of water by comparison, but they do play a stabilizing role by serving as a savings bank of sorts for the state's water needs.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

Desert, mountains, a small lake in which flamingos nibble, and of course glaciers, which we are saving for tomorrow.

Soar Above Glaciers and Look For Wildlife Seward is a small seaside mountain town nestled between the Kenai Fjords National Park and the Chugach National Forest.

Re # 9 Tad Pfeffer you say: «The bottom line for me is that glacier dynamics is a very important and unresolved issue (and let's not forget surface mass balance — it hasn't gone way and it's not small).

And for 10 days, I was able to share this intimacy: I depended on the wood collected from these trees, the water that was siphoned from melting glaciers above me, the cabbage and potatoes grown in small family gardens, and the rice and lentils carried upon the backs of my Tamang hosts.

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.

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»

The authors conclude that the there is a higher retreat - rate for marine terminating glaciers in the recent warm period; in the 1930s when there is a natural mode of variability active that caused regional temperatures around Greenland to be anomalously warm, there was a higher retreat rate for land - terminating glaciers (the lower retreat rate today is in part because they are currently smaller).

This tendency for small alpine glaciers in the Pacific Northwest to have different mass balance histories, yet high cross correlation coefficients was previously noted by Letreguilly (1989).

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.

For instance the above mentioned small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation, and the growth of favourably situated plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure (Brown and Escombe, 1905): In any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely.

Columbia Glacier is a south facing cirque glacier with a comparatively low slope for a small alpine glacier (0.15).

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

That's what Syed Iqbal Hasnain is after... For years he and a small band of students have climbed Himalayan glaciers, like the East Rathong, measuring them and tracking their changes.

The projected disappearance of small glaciers * worldwide threatens to eliminate the water supply for numerous towns in valleys, such as the Ecuadorian capital Quito, fed by the rivers that flow down from the surrounding mountains.

Notably, most of the world's glaciers are also getting smaller — except for a few stubborn ones, such as in the Karakoram area of the Himalaya.

«But for the next few generations, it is the small glaciers that will be most important.»

For crying out loud the gravitional mass of Jupiter makes small changes in the eccentricy of the earth's and depending on whether eccentricity max / min is in or out of phase with earth axial tilt min / max spells the difference between glaciers a mile thick covering everything north of Washington, DC and whether grass is able to sprout in Montreal.

«Because the maximum thickness of these small, low - altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,» said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.

For the period 1961 - 2003, the observed sea level rise due to thermal expansion was 0.42 millimeters per year and 0.69 millimeters per year due to total glacier melt (small glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets)(IPCC 2007).

«Some small glaciers like this have already disappeared,» he said as melting icicles dripped on nearby rock, exposed for the first time in millennia.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal OHC changes (blue) along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice caps, Greenland, Antarctica, and Arctic sea ice plus small contributions from land to atmosphere warming (red) suggest a total warming for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W m − 2 (95 % error bars).

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.