Sentences with phrase «glacier ice dynamics»

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Moon describes the many ways researchers study glacier dynamics, from in - place measurements on the ice to satellite - based monitoring campaigns to models.

Synchronous retreat and acceleration of southeast Greenland outlet glaciers 2000 — 06: ice dynamics and coupling to climate.Journal of Glaciology, 54 (187).

Until now, though, most of the focus has been on ice sheet dynamics — how quickly Greenland's glaciers are flowing into the sea.

There is evidence that these peripheral changes are having a strong effect on glaciers of the inland Antarctic ice due to ice dynamics.

Here we use a high - resolution regional glaciation model, developed by coupling physics - based ice dynamics with a surface mass balance model, to project the fate of glaciers in western Canada.

The recent, marked increase in ice discharge from many of Greenland» slarge outlet glaciers has upended the conventional view that variations in ice - sheet mass balance are dominated on short time scales by variations in surface balance, rather than ice dynamics.

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.»

Presenting such alternative figures confuses and undermines the public understanding of the actual science, which is an understanding about the driving mechanisms of sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean water, melting of mountain glaciers and complex dynamics of large ice sheets — in correspondence again with projected temperature rise, that is in turn a product of projected rises of greenhouse gas concentrations using calculated estimates of climate sensitivity, together creating a net disturbance in Earth's energy balance, the very root cause of anthropogenic climate change.

The article's key conclusion about Kangerlussuaq (KL)-- based on a study of ice dynamics from 2000 to 2006 — hardly justifies labeling it an «inconveniently growing» glacier:

The focus has often been on the influence of climate on glaciers to the neglect of ice dynamics (1).

Howat, I. M., I. Joughin, M. Fahnestock, B. E. Smith, and T. A. Scambos, Synchronous retreat and acceleration of southeast Greenland outlet glaciers 2000 - 06: ice dynamics and coupling to climate, J. Glaciol., 54 (187), 646 - 660, 2008.

If the combination of climate and ice dynamics determines that the glacier is advancing, the advance of the glacier terminus expands the overall glacier area.