Sentences with phrase «glacier recession»

«the recent warming is seen in the oceans, the atmosphere, in Arctic sea ice retreat, in glacier recession, earlier springs, reduced snow cover etc...».

Paired images at Skaftafell provide a graphic illustration of glacier recession in South Iceland since the 1920s.

Is the determination of glacier recession based solely on interpolation of aerial and satelite images?

Ice shelf collapse and glacier recession here, in front of the large ice streams such as Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, would have potential to raise sea levels by tens of centimetres to a metre, through the process of marine ice sheet instability23.

In the Landsat image of Prince Gustav Ice Shelf above, you can see the rapid glacier recession from 1988 to 2009.

This speed - up is spreading far inland, and it indicates a strong link between glacier recession and the observed ice - shelf melting.

«It wouldn't surprise me that you'd see midlatitude glacier recession.

(5) On a global scale, glacier recession rates have dramatically decelerated since the 1920s to 1950s period.

The trend in anthropogenic CO2 emissions was essentially flat and very low (averaging just 1 gigaton of carbon [GtC] per year) from about 1900 to 1945, when a significant portion of the modern glacier recession occurred.

Greene, A.M., W.S. Broecker, and D. Rind, 1999: Swiss glacier recession since the Little Ice Age: Reconciliation with climate records.

However, although Gaffen et al. (2000) found a similar increase over 1960 to 1997, they found a lowering of freezing level over 1979 to 1997 which, at least superficially, is not consistent with glacier recession.

Nevertheless, the fast glacier recession in the tropics seems at first sight to be consistent with an increase in tropical freezing heights of 100 m over the period 1970 to 1986 as reported by Diaz and Graham (1996), corresponding to an increase of 0.5 °C at tropical high mountain levels, which they also link to increases in tropical SST since the mid-1970s (Figure 2.10).

The second error is obvious from the fact that the recent warming is seen in the oceans, the atmosphere, in Arctic sea ice retreat, in glacier recession, earlier springs, reduced snow cover etc., so even if all met stations were contaminated (which they aren't), global warming would still be «unequivocal».

«On top of that, glacier recession is leaving lakes that could burst and wash away villages or infrastructure downstream,» says lead - author Simon Cook, a lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK.

In fact, glacier recession and thermal expansion of the ocean together account for 75 % of today's observed sea level rise.

We can claim that in recent decades the glacier recession moved at a rate unprecedented for at least the last three centuries — in 30 years, they have lost between 35 % and 50 % of their area and volume.

Now the glacier recession could simply mean that 1980 was already warm enough to cause glacier recession and maintenance of the same temperature levels would cause more recession.

Continuous ice - melting due to glacier recession (loss of ice due to excess melting) caused the formation of seven new lakes near the mouth of the glaciers.

This mirrors the significant rise in global temperatures detected over the past 30 years, supporting the conclusion that there is a global trend toward enhanced glacier frontal recession in recent decades and providing support for the assertion that glacier recession can be attributed to recent warming.»