Sentences with phrase «glacier melt rate»

The initial response is an increase in glacier melt rate enhancing glacier runoff, while the glacier extent is still substantial in comparison to previous size.

Since the latest data from around the globe seems to indicate that the Klimakatastrophe is progressing even more rapidly than the worst - case scenario of the IPCC (e.g. increasing glacier melting rate, decreasing oceans» ability to absorb CO2), I tend to believe Lovelock's predictions are spot on.

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.

Not exact matches

Because these black particles absorb more heat than white snow, the study of black carbon concentrations in glaciers is important for predicting future melt rates.

There are ways to monitor when the dam of a glacial lake might break: Scientists track the lake's depth, the geological composition and geometry of its dam, and other factors, such as melting rate and steepness of adjacent glaciers.

More than 80 % of the ice on Africa's highest peak has melted since the early 20th century, joining other glaciers that are ebbing from the world's tropical mountains at an accelerating rate.

As you know, recent reports have suggested that buried volcanoes explain unusual rates of melting underneath some Antarctic glaciers.

Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an accelerating rate.

Dr Jourdain said it may help explain why the melt rate of some of the glaciers in that region are accelerating more than scientists expected.

So when wind pulls warm water up from down deep, the temperature difference experienced at the interface of the water and ice can effectively submerse the glacier in a hot bath, with some areas experiencing more than a 10-fold increase in melt rate.

The new study offers hope that scientists could monitor the melting rates of tidewater glaciers simply by measuring underwater noise in the fjords.

If so, a reduction in cold brine would mean the glacier's winter melt rate would increase.

A new NASA - led study has discovered an intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that discharges the most ice into the ocean.

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.

For a pair of recent studies, UCI and NASA JPL scientists examined three neighboring glaciers in West Antarctica that are melting and retreating at different rates.

The studies examined three neighboring glaciers that are melting and retreating at different rates.

Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers.

Pollution on the Himalayan glaciers, for instance, is raising concerns that it will speed melt rates and harm water supplies.

Using satellites, the researchers determined that «bottom melt rates experienced by large outlet glaciers near their grounding lines are far higher than generally assumed.»

Add to your check list of reality the fact that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate (see RC threads on tropical glacier melt); enough so that flash flooding, from overflowing glacier - melt lakes, is a serious and life - threatening concern of downstream populations.

Although scientists have known for decades that Qori Kalis and the other Quelccaya glaciers are melting, new observations indicate that the rate of retreat is increasing, Professor Thompson said.

The climate and melting rate of the Asian glaciers has been the source of some contention, the Guardian pointed out, because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change incorrectly reported earlier that all the glaciers would be gone by 2035.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

I'd say a warming trend showing - up in one set of data no later than 1850 (significant enough to cause measurably increase rates of glacier melt) vs a warming trend not showing - up in another set of data until later than 1900 is a conflict that is well beyond a «bit silly.»

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

Student project of Mainz University installs wind - catching screen at the Swiss Rhône glacier to test its effect on its melting rate

The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.

Acceleration of melting of ice - sheets, glaciers and ice - caps: A wide array of satellite and ice measurements now demonstrate beyond doubt that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice - sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate.

The Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound, the world's fastest - melting glacier, slides into the ocean at a rate of 80 feet per day.

I'd say a warming trend showing - up in one set of data no later than 1850 (significant enough to cause measurably increase rates of glacier melt) vs a warming trend not showing - up in another set of data until later than 1900 is a conflict that is well beyond a «bit silly.»

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodell has a great report on why Jason Box's radical approach to climate science is changing our understanding of the unprecedented rate of glacier melt in Greenland.

There is of course a lot of uncertainty about the details, that affect the melt rates, we just don't know how quickly warmer seawater will undercut floating glaciers, and buildup of darker older snow / ice layers will increase the amount of absorbed sun light.

Guardian and WAPO are reporting the study ways coastal glaciers are melting from below at faster rate than had been predicted.

If climate changes increase the snow deposition rate on the plateau there, the rate of sea level rise from melting glaciers elsewhere would be reduced.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

Glaciers and Arctic ice are melting at an accelerating rate.

In the real world, effects of AGW are so localized that the top and bottom of the same glacier melt at different rates.

Glaciers and ice caps in Arctic Canada are continuing to lose mass at a rate that has been increasing since 1987, reflecting a trend towards warmer summer air temperatures and longer melt seasons.

In hopes of slowing the rate at which ice is melting in the mountains of northern Italy, officials have begun covering one their most threatened glaciers with insulating fabric, creating what is essentially a giant security blanket

In hopes of slowing the rate at which ice is melting in the mountains of northern Italy, officials have begun covering one their most threatened glaciers with insulating fabric, creating what is essentially a giant security blanket to help keep the ice from melting in the summer heat.

Given that these melting rates are a response to current climate forcings, it seems fairly obvious that the glaciers will all melt, even if CO2 levels are stabilized at today's levels.

If continental ice melting (Greenland, Antarctic, terrestrial glaciers) is accelerating and if warming of the 0 - 700 m (and deeper) oceanic layer is still on, you shoud observe a higher rate of sea - level rise.

The melt of the Greenland glaciers is accelerating at an incredible rate and it can't be long before the Arctic sea ice disappears altering global albedo irrevocably.

BRUSSELS — Faulty communication allowed an unsubstantiated estimate ofthe melting rate of Himalayan glaciers to make it into the landmark 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a senior scientist and panel official said Monday.

Outside of Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers are indeed melting almost everywhere, at an extremely rapid rate.

Glaciers have continued to melt at accelerating rates, arctic summer ice is declining at accelerating rates, more 6 - 10 thousand year old ice shelves are collapsing.

However, as Timothy explained in # 121, in addition to the direct sea level rise that occurs when ice shelves melt, there is a much larger secondary effect, in that ice shelves act as a brake, greatly reducing the rate of flow of the glaciers behind them from the land to the sea; and when ice shelves melt, the rate of glacier flow increases quite rapidly.

So about an average speed of 27 km / yr is needed from now until 2100 for all GIS outlet glaciers, in combination with a 10x higher surface melt rate, to get a GIS - contribution to global SLR of 2 meters this century.

A survey has revealed that the rate of melting across the world has sharply accelerated in recent years, placing even previously stable glaciers in jeopardy.