Sentences with phrase «glacier retreat suggests»

Qualitative indicators like sea ice coverage, spring thaw dates, and melting permafrost provide strong additional evidence that trends have been positive at middle and high northern latitudes, while glacier retreat suggests warming aloft at lower latitudes.

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The new research suggests that nearly 11 percent of the glaciers around Antarctica as a whole are retreating at a faster pace today.

At Pine Island Glacier, for instance — one of West Antarctica's largest glaciers, and previously one of its fastest retreating spots — the research suggests that the grounding line has recently stabilized.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

Computer simulations suggest that, once a glacier starts to retreat into such a reverse slope, the retreat can become unstoppable.

Data from the tropical and subtropical Andes suggest that changes in precipitation and cloud cover in the latter portion of the 20th century are minor, and that changes in these quantities are unlikely candidates for explaining Andes glacier retreat.

Numerous investigations in the past have suggested that glaciers are retreating as a response to global warming.

This would suggest to me that the glacier grounding line will retreat into the deeper basin upglacier of the current grounding line.

The quote from the article: «Their models suggest that this would cause the glacier to uncontrollably retreat about 25 miles (40 kilometers) over the next several decades, potentially raising global sea levels by more than 0.4 inches (1 centimeter).»

Warm ocean water plays a significant role in melting glacial ice from below, and a better mapping of Antarctica's and Greenland's landforms beneath the ice suggests that ocean melting of the glacier fronts may play a more significant role than previously thought as the ice sheets retreat (under a global warming scenario).

He edited scientific reports, striking out evidence that glaciers were retreating and inserting phrases suggesting that there was serious scientific doubt about climate change.

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.

Global warming must be the primary cause of glacier retreat, which is occurring on a global scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be involved.

Paleo - climate research suggests the position of the ASL also shifts between glacials and interglacials, and drove warm CDW shoreward during interglacials and accelerated glacier retreat.

At Pine Island Glacier, for instance — one of West Antarctica's largest glaciers, and previously one of its fastest retreating spots — the research suggests that the grounding line has recently stabilized.

The new research suggests that nearly 11 percent of the glaciers around Antarctica as a whole are retreating at a faster pace today.

It is virtually certain that the retreat of many glaciers around the world has been caused by climate change, a new study suggests.

However, the accelerated retreat of glaciers, combined with greater melting of these ice sheets, suggest that earlier projections of sea - level rise over the next century — such as in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — are conservative.8, 9