Sentences with phrase «glacier change over»

Here is my graphic of glacier change over the last 3000 years together with the apparently stable hockey stick and the real world decadal variability of CET

They used a combination of field observations and data from local weather stations to test a model of glacier change over the past 50 years.

«The novelty of our study lies in the bigger picture — measuring glacier change over all main glaciated ranges in Bolivia — and in the identification of potentially dangerous lakes for the first time,» Cook says.

But as the Yahtse advances, it is also thinning, underscoring the mystery behind exactly how these glaciers change over time.

«The results of the study clearly showed the magnitude of glacier changes over the coming decades is likely to be very large and that [continue reading...]

Not exact matches

«Our timing was serendipitous, as it meant we were able to see changes in microbial processes over an extremely fast melting season and observe a process from start to end across all habitats on a glacier surface.

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

«The ability to routinely monitor calving events is a new approach,» said Bruce Molnia, research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who has written extensively on Alaska's glaciers and has documented their change over time.

To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier - fed lake that provided the first continuous observation of glacier change in southeastern Greenland.

A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Natural ones include intraplate stress changes related to plate tectonics and natural water table or lake level variations caused by changing weather patterns or water drainage patterns over time, or advance or retreat of glaciers.

A total of over 5,000 measurements of glacier volume and mass changes since 1850 and more than 42,000 records from observations and reconstructions dating back to the sixteenth century were analyzed.

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

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

... The [NAO proxy record] shows distinct co-variability with climate changes over Greenland, solar activity and Northern Hemisphere glacier dynamics as well as climatically associated paleo - demographic trends.

There are considerable concerns over how such a temperature rise could melt glaciers and thaw permafrost, as well as change local ecosystems.

A study published in the Annals of Glaciology last month adds to the pile of crap news about how these glaciers, which extend out over water that's being warmed by climate change, are susceptible to melting...

The most recent work in this regard comes from the scientific team of Fountain et al. (2017), who analyzed changes in glacier extent along the western Ross Sea in Antarctica over the past 60 years.

A study published in the Annals of Glaciology last month adds to the pile of crap news about how these glaciers, which extend out over water that's being warmed by climate change, are susceptible to melting that could screw the world's coasts.

More specifically, using digital scans of paper maps based on aerial imagery acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey, along with modern - day satellite imagery from a variety of platforms, the authors digitized a total of 49 maps and images from which they calculated changes in the terminus positions, ice speed, calving rates and ice front advance and retreat rates from 34 glaciers in this region over the period 1955 - 2015.

«Chasing Ice»: Science, spectacle and human passion mix in this stunningly cinematic portrait as National Geographic photographer James Balog captures time - lapse photography of glaciers over several years, providing tangible visual evidence of climate change.

The tour also includes animations, which show how over time melting glaciers in the Himalayas — an effect of climate change — may lead to higher flood and safety risks for communities living downstream of dams.

Over time, these things tend to average out, and for most (but not all glaciers) the temperature change generally winds up being the dominant signal.

In a previous post entitled Worldwide Glacier Retreat, we highlighted the results of a study by J. Oerlemans, who compiled glacier data from around the world and used them to estimate temperature change over the last ~ 400 years.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

There was an interesting study in Nature Geoscience last Sunday showing pretty clearly that the accelerating flow of the Jacobshavn glacier in recent years was most likely driven by an influx of warm deep seawater, and that shift was likely due to changes in pressure and wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean.

While glacier melt contributes water to the region's rivers and streams, retreating glaciers over the next several decades are unlikely to cause significant change in water availability at lower elevations, which depend primarily on monsoon precipitation and snowmelt, the committee said.

Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Securityglaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water SecurityGlaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

The 2009 State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise, glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating, glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.

The horizontal location motion has the mean motion removed to emphasize short - term change over the much, much larger forward motion of the glacier that varies from about ~ 700 (black) to ~ 1250 meters per year (red).

Scientists can take sediment cores from the bottom of a glacier - fed lake to see how much silt and organic material settled to the lake bottom over time, along with other indicators of a changing climate.

To track how glaciers grew and shrank over time, the scientists extracted sediment cores from a glacier - fed lake that provided the first continuous observation of glacier change in southeastern Greenland.

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

Both the observations of mass balance and the estimates based on temperature changes (Table 11.4) indicate a reduction of mass of glaciers and ice caps in the recent past, giving a contribution to global - average sea level of 0.2 to 0.4 mm / yr over the last hundred years.

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Gregory and Oerlemans (1998) applied local seasonal temperature changes over 1860 to 1990 calculated by the HadCM2 AOGCM forced by changing greenhouse gases and aerosols (HadCM2 GS in Table 9.1) to the glacier model of Zuo and Oerlemans.

Coincident with the release of the report, the Norwegian environment minister Erik Solheim announced 12 million dollar funding over five years to help communities in India, Pakistan and China adapt to the changes in the glaciers on which they depend.

NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the continent's ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice.

That situation changed during recent weeks when two scientific papers broke the news that some of West Antarctica's glaciers had lost upwards of a half a kilometer of ice thickness due to contact with warm ocean waters over the past decade.

The Copernicus Sentinel - 2B satellite takes us over Alaska's Columbia Glacier, one of the most rapidly changing glaciers in the world.

«The observed changes in sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, in the mass of the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic ice caps and glaciers over the past 10 years are dramatic and represent an obvious departure from long - term patterns,» says the report.

«The widespread retreat of the glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 50 years was largely caused by climate change,» said David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

In 1997 the U.S. Geological Survey began the Repeat Photography Project in the Montana park to compare how glaciers have changed over the last century.

Joughin and others, 2008 observed that seasonal drainage of meltwater to the glacier bed induces a uniform acceleration of 50 — 150 meters / year over a ~ 300 km long section of the West Greenland margin that is not drained by outlet glaciers, causing a large fractional acceleration of the interior ice sheet but a small fractional change in the speed of fast - moving outlet glaciers.

As a remote sensing scientist, I often use Worldview to put things into context (e.g. for studying changes over ice sheets and glaciers).

It will also confirm the accelerated rate of change for impacts such as sea - level rise, the steady retreat of Arctic sea ice and quickened melting of ice sheets and glaciers, as well as offer more detail on scenarios that will shape international negotiations over both short - term and long - term greenhouse gas emissions, including how long «business as usual» can be sustained without dangerous risk.

Glaciers have a huge lag time and you can only detect changes in their length over many many decades.