Sentences with word «glacier»

The discovery is significant because it is thought that such lakes may have accelerated the retreat of glaciers in the past, and could do so again.

But despite making an error over Himalayan glacier melt in its landmark 2007 report, the panel's basic conclusions remain sound, he said.

Similar problems are expected in those countries reliant on Himalayan glaciers for their water supplies.

But Chinese scientists warn that global warming is main cause of glacier retreat and the tourism ban will do little to reverse the trend.

A growing number of studies based on satellite data and stream chemistry analyses have found that far less surface water comes from glacier melt than previously assumed.

Ice shelves serve as a crucial barrier to prevent land - based ice sheets as well as glaciers from melting into oceans and increasing sea levels.

It has always seemed to me that the retreat of mountain glaciers around the world is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for global warming.

However, some of the discoveries dug up were as alien as the rocks transported to the site by glaciers millions of years ago.

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

They lose mass when ice and snow at the surface melts and runs off and when glaciers at the coast discharge ice into the ocean.

It also has an amazing backdrop of the mountains with glacier in between.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

And the lakes are growing in mass as glacier ice melts become more prevalent.

As the authors put it in their paper, reductions in emissions «will only have very limited influence on on glacier mass change in the twenty - first century».

Understanding the ocean's influence could help reveal how glaciers around the world are feeding the rising seas.

For the purpose of the study, the monitoring service compiled data on changes in glaciers over the last 120 years.

By the way, the problem was that he was following the assumption that the continental glacier moved in all places in the same way as it does on a large scale.

Generally speaking, lower glaciers which extend below the elevation where above - freezing air temperatures occur, are more sensitive to temperature.

Maybe someone knows a study that has specifically addressed that for tropical glaciers?

The mission is providing the first comprehensive look at how glaciers and oceans change year to year.

The impacts of global warming have begun to appear across the globe, from shrinking glaciers to rising seas.

The team's early results show that the ocean retains areas of open water in the tropics, even when glaciers cover much of the land mass.

The new study reinforces previous research showing the power of climate change over small glaciers worldwide.

There was no significant change in the area of eight other glacier lakes which were situated at a higher altitude and not created by melting.

When an ice shelf disappears, the land - based glacier ice it held back can flow faster into the ocean, directly contributing to sea level rise.

Therefore, the rate of glacier loss accelerates in all scenarios for the first half of this century (shown by descending lines in middle chart).

Finally, direct, ground - based observations have been in place at many glaciers since the 1990s.

By trapping heat, rising concentrations of atmospheric pollution are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt into seas, lifting high tides ever higher.

It has a sleek glacier white exterior and a wheat interior.

Most regions of BC will probably be warmer, sea levels will rise, and fresh drinking water may be harder to find as glaciers disappear.

This retreat represents a loss in glacier area that will be mapped in 2001 and 2002.

The tree line was hundreds of meters higher 3000 years ago, we still find remnants of trees under glaciers.

If glacier data is a little incorrect but helps that effort, then the data is true in all but a very narrow and clinical scientific sense.