Sentences with phrase «glacier system»

But restoring global temperatures to pre-industrial levels «may eventually allow the re-establishment of glacier systems on many mountains».

The highest range in the region, and the one with the biggest glacier system in the U.S portion of the chain, your trip will provide all the impressive vistas these mountains are known for without the big crowds.

Average yearly change in mass, in centimeters of water, during 2003 - 2010, as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, for Greenland and Antarctica and their peripheral glaciers and ice caps, all the world's glaciers and ice caps (excluding Greenland and Antarctica), for the Indian subcontinent, and changes in ice thickness (in centimeters per year) averaged over each of the world's ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and Antarctica.

While the Larsen B glacier system is of only moderate size (about 10 gigatons per year) the process is an example of what might occur on a larger scale.

Although glacier systems are inherently complex overall trends indicate that globally glaciers are receding.

This photo shows the ice front of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier, a major glacier system of West Antarctica.

They see potential for conflict over access to dwindling water supplies downstream from what had once been great glacier systems.

They are divided into a western glacier system and an eastern glacier system.

27 January 2000: The Hektoria Glacier system is stable, but increased summer melting from climate warming in the 1980s and 1990s affected the glacier system in two ways: (1) a seasonal speedup from summer melt water percolating through the glacier ice to its base, and (2) initial retreat of the Larsen Ice Shelf due to the effects of melt ponds (downstream from this image).

The deep worry is that the glacier system will be pushed beyond a certain tipping point where such a thing becomes if not just feasible then likely, with assistance from progressing climate change and its assorted feedback loops.

This review proposes the need for the scientific evidence pertaining to the region's glacier systems to be approached objectively in the future, such that a robust assessment of change can be attained.

We're going to lose a lot of coastal cities because of this glacier system alone.