Sentences with phrase «glacier by glacier»

Our results provide a nearly complete assessment of the spatial pattern in mass flux and mass change along the coast of Antarctica, glacier by glacier, with lower error bounds than in previous incomplete surveys, and a delineation of areas of changes versus areas of near stability.

Not exact matches

Icelandic banks played the carry trade too, and foreign banks followed suit by creating «glacier bonds,» which were repackaged Icelandic bonds sold to investors outside the country.

And even though these coastal glaciers have passed the point of no return, the researchers predict it's unlikely they'll melt entirely until 2100 — when that happens it's estimated that it will raise global sea levels by around 3.8 cm (1.5 inches).

Howat and his team were able to figure this out by creating high - resolution topographic models of the glaciers and their boundaries, as well as a numerical model of exactly how much water was flowing off these coastal glaciers and ice caps — technology that wasn't available back in 1996.

But, one area the previous owner ignored was the Mitchell Zone, as it was covered by a glacier when Placer conducted its activities.

The surrender of the whole universe to the physical sciences, represented by A. J. Ayer in philosophy (and by others in medicine and psychology) was a loud, daring little ice floe that tried to pull the glacier with it, failed, and fell into the sea.

Next came another embarrassment, this time to the IPCC itself: the discovery that a 2007 report that the glaciers of the Himalayas could vanish by 2035, published by the IPCC in 2007, was entirely bogus.

A glacier is formed by the falling of snow that collects over a period of time.

Case in point: this old oil company ad that brags how the energy produced by oil can melt a glacier...

Story and Photos by Paul Ross Recipes: Pebre (Chilean Salsa) Chorizo Criollo (Chorizo Sausage from Argentina) Pastel de Choclo (Chilean Meat Pie) Pescado Marinado Estilo Chileno (Marinated Halibut Chilean - Style) Mariscos con Frutas Citricas (Argentine Citrus Seafood) Riding low in the water, this passenger - laden Zodiac ventures close to a calving glacier.

The name «Icelandic Glacial» is inspired by the majestic glaciers of Iceland and is meant to capture the essence of our beautiful country.

By Martin Kunz, EMEA Segment Leader, Industry with Xylem's Applied Water Systems business Only 2.5 percent of the world's water is fresh water, and of that, only one percent is accessible as much is trapped in glaciers and snowfields.

Unfortunately, however, the snow had been so unexpected that the «Stade» (the race piste that finishes opposite VarCity) had not been prepared by the resort staff, and, as a result, we were faced with a daily commute up to the glacier, where we were greeted both by our coaches and a wind chill of -28 °C.

Forty percent of the park is covered by glaciers — real, gnarly glaciers, the kind of ice a lot of mountaineers don't get many chances to navigate.

On a glacier each step you take is tentative, even if your path has been tested by someone in front of you.

By capturing the glacier, India violated the Simla agreement, which had specifically stated: «Neither side shall seek to alter it [Line of Control] unilaterally irrespective of mutual differences and legal interpretations.

The stones had been carried there from many miles away by a glacier that had ground across the bedrock.

Some of the glaciers, first seen by the New Horizons spacecraft in July, hold ice that circulates like the material in a lava lamp.

Scientists have long suspected Greenland's melting may be accelerated by the ocean (SN Online: 7/6/11), but needed data on fjord depth and glacier thickness to prove it.

Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic data for 20 major glaciers within 10 fjords in southeast Greenland.

Other glaciers are protected by shallow sills, or raised seafloor ledges.

The panel had written that the glaciers of the Himalayas could vanish by 2035 but in January retracted the statement (pdf) as «poorly substantiated.»

Just over 1 % of our planet's glaciers — some 2300 in all — are known to undergo these precipitous movements, though the number is likely to rise as glaciers come under closer surveillance by remote sensing.

Now, by studying glaciers from Tibet to the Arctic islands of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, researchers are starting to understand why some glaciers swing between extremes of stagnation and crushing flow, and how surges may be predicted.

Roughly 210 million people live in the region, and another 1.3 billion people who live downstream depend on rivers fed in part by glaciers and mountain snowpack.

They can block rivers, creating lakes that can later unleash floods, and by depleting glacier mass, they can threaten the flow of meltwater that downstream towns and farms may depend on.

«Until recently, we had little information on ocean temperature and water depth in these fjords to quantify these processes, so the interpretation of glacier evolution on a case - by - case basis was difficult.»

The peculiar snowbank is located on Ellesmere Island, a huge landmass northwest of Greenland that is dominated by arching mountains and sprawling glaciers, and where the temperature averages around -5 degrees Fahrenheit for the year.

Deer fiords reach far into the inland ice, terminated only by the sheer walls of giant glaciers.

The warming has boosted the amount of meltwater shed by the Aru glaciers by 50 %, 3D computer modeling suggests.

Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind - driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

But efforts to understand the interplay between the climate and the glaciers are hampered by a lack of data.

Speaking at a development summit, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out in full support of the beleaguered IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri, the first time Singh had addressed the issue after IPCC offered its «regret» on the blunder it committed in predicting that glaciers in the Himalayas would melt away by 2035.

EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error — that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 — there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes.

By contrast, glaciers in intermediate conditions can easily get out of kilter, accumulating internal heat until enough meltwater builds up at their base to trigger a surge.

Ice worms: The surface of a glacier contains a willy - nilly assemblage of irregularly shaped ice grains joined together by necks of ice.

Inch by inch the huge river of ice which we call a glacier creeps toward the sea, and here its projecting end is broken off by the action of the waves.

By 2050, another U.N. report predicts, the glaciers on the plateau will have shrunk by one thirBy 2050, another U.N. report predicts, the glaciers on the plateau will have shrunk by one thirby one third.

When that glacier recedes, it leaves a basin, enclosed by the moraine and remaining glacial ice, which fills with meltwater.

The moment of transition from the Ediacaran to the Cambrian world is recorded in a series of stone outcrops rounded by ancient glaciers on the south edge of Newfoundland.

The research into the fate of glaciers and the permafrost soils — done by the United Nations, China's scientific agencies, and several independent scientists — is not focused on the railway.

The broad, bright plains known as Sputnik Planum seem to be covered by nitrogen glaciers; these flow gloppily, and quickly erase craters made by crashing asteroids.

A small glacier lake known as Nagma Pokhari sits nestled in a valley near Mount Everest in Nepal, surrounded by steep walls of sediment that hold the icy waters in place.

As glaciers in most parts of the Himalayas melt, floods caused by the bursting of rapidly expanding glacial lakes pose an increasing risk to mountain communities.

A report issued by the United Nations Environment Program in April says at least 44 lakes in Nepal and Bhutan are filling so rapidly with icy water from melting glaciers that they could burst their banks within five to 10 years.

He and colleagues thought that the answer to the floodwater question might also lie in the lakes» moraines — piles of sediments bulldozed by glaciers into high ridges that act as dams.

By measuring how long rocks at different heights on the mountain have seen sunlight, Balco could calculate how quickly the glacier thinned and reexposed the mountain.

A laser altimeter onboard the ICESat satellite had documented the thinning of glaciers feeding into Larsen B and Scar Inlet — as indicated by lowering of the ice surface — but the altimeter had fizzled out earlier that year.

What about archaeological artifacts exposed by melting glaciers?

A 3D map of Antarctica today shows chasms carved by glaciers, rugged mountains and other remnants of its warmer existence.