Sentences with phrase «gaining ice mass»

Antarctica, the «inconvenient» pole, the naughty child, has been gaining ice mass and cooling for decades, despite a 20 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, and model predictions to the contrary.

MEANWHILE, as the climate mafia propagandisers inside their COLD = HOT bubble, the other conveniently forgotten pole, Antarctica, continues its long 40 year + cooling trend, gaining ice mass despite record and rising CO2 levels and claims of «The Hottest Years Evah ``...

In short, Antarctica could be gaining ice mass and still causing the oceans to rise.

Not exact matches

Glaciologists say this is not the case: The Ross Sea Sector is gaining mass because one glacier, the Kamb Ice Stream, which periodically stops and starts, is currently in stop mode and therefore not dumping ice into the oceIce Stream, which periodically stops and starts, is currently in stop mode and therefore not dumping ice into the oceice into the ocean.

It's also thought to be among the most stable, not gaining or losing mass even as ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland shrink.

The ice sheet is gaining mass and thus removing water from sea levels.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the only ice sheet likely to gain in mass, but even this ice sheet has the potential to rapidly lose ice volume around its marine - grounded sectoIce Sheet is the only ice sheet likely to gain in mass, but even this ice sheet has the potential to rapidly lose ice volume around its marine - grounded sectoice sheet likely to gain in mass, but even this ice sheet has the potential to rapidly lose ice volume around its marine - grounded sectoice sheet has the potential to rapidly lose ice volume around its marine - grounded sectoice volume around its marine - grounded sectors.

Monckton says «The Antarctic, which holds 90 percent of the world's ice and nearly all its 160,000 glaciers, has cooled and gained ice - mass over the past 30 years, reversing a 6,000 - year melting trend.»

Overall, ice shelves in the Amundsen sea sector lost about five times as much mass as they gained during the event.

Fully aware of this standard response to injuries, coaches and athletes looked to ice baths as a tool to accelerate gains in strength, power and lean muscle mass.

Models actually predict that the interior of the ice sheets should gain mass because of the increased snowfall that goes along with warmer temperatures, and recent observations actually agree with those predictions.

This is despite using observed ice sheet mass loss (0.19 mm / year) in the «modelled» number in this comparison, otherwise the discrepancy would be even larger — the ice sheet models predict that the ice sheets gain mass due to global warming.

• Current global model studies project that the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall.

The Greenland ice sheet gains mass via snowfall and losses mass via the production of icebergs and by melt of ice in the ice marginal zone.

But again the «models» estimate includes an observed ice sheet mass loss term of 0.41 mm / year whereas ice sheet models give a mass gain of 0.1 mm / year for this period; considering this, observed rise is again 50 % faster than the best model estimate for this period.

Although that's really all that needs be said, I should add that jetfuel is trying to compare cumulative year - over-year land ice mass loss in Antarctica with (cyclical) seasonal river / lake ice volume gain in Canada - and ignoring the inevitable melt - away of the latter.

The ongoing flux of mantle material into areas which have experienced large - scale ice - mass loss since the LGM looks like mass gain to GRACE.

So long as an ice sheet gains an equal mass through snowfall as it loses through melt, ablation, and calving from glaciers and ice shelves, it is said to be in balance.

Additionally, unadjusted GRACE gravity data has suggested no lost ice mass and all estimates of ice gains or loss depend on which Glacial Isostatic Adjustments modelers choose to use.

If mass loss exceeds mass gain the ice sheet will shrink.

A wealth of historical imagery exists for Greenland, and scientists could use this data to develop even more detailed histories of the ice sheet, and to determine whether the Greenland Ice Sheet was at equilibrium — not losing or gaining mass — in recent timice sheet, and to determine whether the Greenland Ice Sheet was at equilibrium — not losing or gaining mass — in recent timIce Sheet was at equilibrium — not losing or gaining mass — in recent times.

DMI says, The surface mass balance is calculated over a year from September 1st to August 31st (the end of the melt season) For the 2016 - 17 SMB year, which ended yesterday, the ice sheet had gained 544bn tonnes of ice, compared to an average for 1981 - 2010 of 368bn tonnes.

Equilibrium line - The boundary between the region on a glacier where there is a net annual loss of ice mass (ablation area) and that where there is a net annual gain (accumulation area).

Two of the ice streams that flow in the Ross Ice Shelf have slowed, they said, and that area of Antarctica is gaining maice streams that flow in the Ross Ice Shelf have slowed, they said, and that area of Antarctica is gaining maIce Shelf have slowed, they said, and that area of Antarctica is gaining mass.

Antartica is gaining land ice mass and sea Iice mass and sea IceIce.

As for future influences of melting glaciers, consider that the Arctic, which goes through regular 60 - to 70 - year - long warming and cooling cycles, has most recently been losing some ice mass, while most of the vastly larger Antarctic continent has been gaining.

Although Zwally calculated the net «mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded losses from ice discharge by about 112 and 82 Gt / year respectively during the 1992 - 2001 and 2003 - 08 measurement periods», he also reported that the rate of ice loss along the west Antarctic coast and the peninsula had increased from 64 GT / year to 135 GT / year during those same periods.

A 2015 study using regional ice core data reveals no unusual temperature changes but an exceptional 30 % increase in snow accumulation during the twentieth century, again supporting Zwally's analysis of mass gain in interior west Antarctica.

Such models also indicate that warming would initially cause the Antarctic ice sheet as a whole to gain mass owing to an increased accumulation of snowfall (*; some recent studies find no significant continent - wide trends in accumulation over the past several decades; Lemke et al., 2007 Section 4.6.3.1).

In recent years researchers have been lowering their estimates of mass gained during the last Ice Age and lost ice mass during the recent deglaciatiIce Age and lost ice mass during the recent deglaciatiice mass during the recent deglaciation.

NOTE: this doesn't mean the ice sheet was gaining ice before 2006 but that ice mass was above the 2002 to 2010 average.

Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003 — 08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a − 1, reducing global sea - level rise by 0.23 mm a − 1.

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

4) Contradictions that current theory may not be able to resolve (e.g., is antarctica supposed to gain or lose ice mass in the short term?).

Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120013495 SCAR ISMASS Workshop, July 14, 2012 «During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation chaIce Sheet Exceed Losses http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120013495 SCAR ISMASS Workshop, July 14, 2012 «During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation chaice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation chaice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change

And more recent estimates of the Antarctic mass balance contribution to sea level rise has the East Antarctica ice sheet gaining mass at a more accelerated pace for 2003 - 2013 than the mere +14 Gt per year identified by Shepherd et al. (2012) for 1992 - 2011.

For example, Martín - Español et al. (2017) find that the total mass trend for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was a gain of +57 Gt per year during 2003 - 2013, which is 4 times the rate of gain assessed for 1992 - 2011.

Scientists: Warming causes Antarctic ice sheet growth, and lower sea levels By Kenneth Richard While many scientists are projecting rapid sea level rise as a result of a warmer Antarctica and consequent ice sheet melting, other scientists are projecting that the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet will gain in mass because a warmer Antarctica means snow and ice accumulation will outpace the -LSB-...]

the ice cap may be losing mass, but the ice pack is gaining in extent.

Furthermore, IPCC just as clearly states «Current global model studies project that the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall.»

For example, chapter ten, «Ice melts, sea level rises,» discusses the disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers, estimates of sea level rise in the present century, estimates of its costs — the EPA estimated in 1991 that a one - meter rise would cost the US alone between $ 270 billion and $ 475 billion — evidence of past oceanic high - water marks and glacial extents, the dynamics of ice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.&raqIce melts, sea level rises,» discusses the disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers, estimates of sea level rise in the present century, estimates of its costs — the EPA estimated in 1991 that a one - meter rise would cost the US alone between $ 270 billion and $ 475 billion — evidence of past oceanic high - water marks and glacial extents, the dynamics of ice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.&raqice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.&raqice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.&raqice sheets.»

Concern is raised by recent inferences from gravity measurements that the WAIS is losing mass (39), and observations that glaciers draining into the Amundsen Sea are losing 60 % more ice than they are gaining and hence contributing to sea - level rise (40).

Current total ice - loss in Greenland is running at an estimated 200 Gte / yr and Antarctica at 150 Gte / yr (with ice mass gain in the east and loss in the west — with some estimates of a net gain)-- at that rate of 1mm / yr, by 2100 the global ice - loss would raise sea level by a little over 3 inches.

Current models suggest ice mass losses increase with temperature more rapidly than gains due to increased precipitation and that the surface mass balance becomes negative (net ice loss) at a global average warming (relative to pre-industrial values) in excess of 1.9 to 4.6 °C.

They grow when the ice sheet gains mass through snowfall.

Jim D, according to Zwally based on IceSat Antarctica is not losing, and may be gaining, ice mass.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120013495.pdf During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt / yr (2.5 % of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change.

«Ice sheets now appear to be contributing modestly to sea level rise because warming has increased mass loss from coastal areas more than warming has increased mass gain from enhanced snowfall in cold central regions,» the report by a team led by Professor Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University in the US says.

The papers do not address the total mass balance of the ice sheets, and the authors admit that the ablation at the edges may offset the gains on the interior.

Iceman, Upon more careful reading I note that the data used in the study showing net gain in ice mass stopped in 2002 and the other study was for a period of time subsequent to this.