Sentences with phrase «glacier responds to climate change»

Dr. Koppes is a glacial geomorphologist whose main interest these days is how glaciers respond to climate change; her co-author, David R. Montgomery of the University of Washington, is a geomorphologist, too, but a fluvial one — he comes at the subject from the river side.

Glaciers respond to climate change in an attempt to achieve a new equilibrium.

Not exact matches

Understanding how mountain glaciers are responding to climate change is important because they provide fresh water to many heavily - populated areas of the globe and can contribute to sea level rise, Winski said.

A new study suggests some of Antarctica's ice sheet grows from the bottom up, adding a new wrinkle to efforts to predict how the continent's glaciers will respond to climate change.

Malone was the principal author on a U.S. Agency for International Development report, Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Glacier Melt Impacts, which assessed how USAID programs could respond to the effects of climate change in this region of the world.

We often focus on terminus change of a glacier which tells us how the glacier is currently responding to recent climate.

Are the glaciers responding primarily to climate changes of the last 30 years, or to the post Little Ice Age conditions?

IceBridge is a six - year campaign to survey and monitor areas of Earth's polar ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice and how they are responding to climate change.