Sentences with phrase «glaciers in the region»

All of that adds up to about 5,500 glaciers in the region disappearing over the rest of the century.

To understand this, they turned to the past, to see what glaciers in that region had previously done.

The trail joins wildlife, culture, and amazing views of the huge glaciers in region.

The team found that, like many glaciers in this region, these two experienced a combination of warming temperatures and increased precipitation in recent years.

There has even been «a shift to surface mass gains» for glaciers in that region.

All of that adds up to about 5,500 glaciers in the region disappearing over the rest of the century.

A team of researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø (Norway), have now discovered that large - scale sedimentation caused by melting of glaciers in a region off Norway has played a greater role in gas hydrate dissociation than warming ocean waters.

«Our speculation is that some of the big glaciers in this region are sliding downhill faster and dumping more ice in the ocean.»

He says that if glaciers in the region continue to melt at the rate seen during the past 30 years, there is a risk that nearly all of them will vanish before the end of the century.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

Estimates from the study indicate that the freezing line could lift by as much as 3,900 feet by 2100, which could expose the majority of glaciers in the region to temperatures above 32 °F in warm - weather months.

One example is a plan to look at the upper portions of Smith Glacier in West Antarctica, which is thinning faster than any other glaciers in the region.

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.

South America: Glaciers in the region are melting so fast that some are expected to disappear within 15 — 25 years.

While the glaciers in this region seemed stable, it turns out warming ocean currents have been melting the underside of the ice.

The glaciers in this region may be particularly susceptible to climate change because they flow from the Aurora Basin, a region of East Antarctica that mostly lies below sea level.

Some 90 % of the 674 glaciers in this region have retreated since records began in the 1940s.

Glaciers in the region are accelerating, in response to frontal thinning and recession [5].

More specifically, using digital scans of paper maps based on aerial imagery acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey, along with modern - day satellite imagery from a variety of platforms, the authors digitized a total of 49 maps and images from which they calculated changes in the terminus positions, ice speed, calving rates and ice front advance and retreat rates from 34 glaciers in this region over the period 1955 - 2015.

A question that arose in subsequent online discussion was to what extent Oerlemans had relied on glaciers from tropical regions (answer: he didn't), and what the reasons are behind retreat of glaciers in these regions.

Apart from holding an exhibition that explains the role of glaciers in the environment and the threats of global warming, the museum also aims to be an investigation center and monitor the evolution of glaciers in the region.

This means that the mean value from the measured glaciers in a region is the same as the (unknown) mean of all glaciers in the region.

There is enough ice in the glaciers in the region to push global sea levels up by more than 10 feet if they all melted, the scientists say.

Although, in the tropics, glacier mass balance responds sensitively to changes in precipitation and humidity (see Lemke et al., 2007, Section 4.5.3), the fast glacier shrinkage of Chacaltaya is consistent with an ascent of the 0 °C isotherm of about 50 m / decade in the tropical Andes since the 1980s (Vuille et al., 2003), resulting in a corresponding rise in the equilibrium line of glaciers in the region (Coudrain et al., 2005).

Based on remote sensing studies, there are 54,000 glaciers in the region, covering some 60,000 square kilometers.

Based on satellite date the French team reports that glaciers in this region are actually putting on mass slightly, BBC News reports:

Known as the Karakoram anomaly, glaciers in this this region have remained stable or even expanded over the past 150 years.

In 2011, the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development issued an assessment of glaciers in the Himalayas, finding that glaciers in the region have declined by 21 percent over the last 30 years.

A new study, due to be presented in July to the International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI), predicts that most of the glaciers in the region will vanish within 40 years as a result of global warming.