Sentences with phrase «glaciers retreat until»

By the way Kenneth, you were commented on the line «when it warms, glaciers retreat until either a new equilibrium between ablation and accumulation is found or until they disappear.»

Dear Kenneth, when it warms, glaciers retreat until either a new equilibrium between ablation and accumulation is found or until they disappear.

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The height of these cliffs made them unstable, triggering the release of thousands of icebergs into Pine Island Bay, and causing the glacier to retreat rapidly until its grounding line reached a restabilising point in shallower water.

The glaciers expanded in bursts, advancing quickly, retreating briefly, and then expanding farther — until about 100 years ago, according to the study.

NOAA has a nice visual of the recession of the Jakobshavn glacier which RC posted here: http://www.realclimate.org/images/jakobshavn.jpg There was a rather large retreat from 1851 until 1913, then slowing until 2001, with a recent acceleration.

Re # 40: -LSB-... As for the 1940s, I'm not familiar with the details of GNP, but in Washington State where I live, glaciers did retreat substantially until about the 1940s, before advancing again until the late 1970s.

When pulses of warm water are strong enough to rise over the shelf's outer ridge, that warm dense water then flows downward to the grounding point of the glacier and remains there until a new equilibrium is established via basal melting and a retreating grounding point.

The glaciers expanded in bursts, advancing quickly, retreating briefly, and then expanding farther — until about 100 years ago, according to the study.

«Shift to the warm - phase PDO in 1977 initiated global warming and recession of glaciers that persisted until 1998» The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that the peak percentage of glaciers retreating is not in 1998 but in 2005 or 2006 at more than 95 % that is persisted alright.

When it is warm, ice melts faster and the glacier will retreat until it reaches a new equilibrium between accumulation and ablation.

Until recently, the contribution of ice sheets to sea - level rise remained unknown and is still debated, but the current acceleration of sea - level rise is attributed to heating of the oceans and melting of land glaciers which is supported by measurements of ocean temperatures and the behavior of mountain glaciers, the vast majority of which are retreating or exhibit signs of instability.

In general, glaciers retreat due to a combination of rising temperatures and declining precipitation, but the temperature and precipitation records from the Alps indicated that glaciers should have continued advancing until around 1910.

(By the way go to an Iceland website and you'll find that the glaciers there were retreating from the late 1800's until 1980 and have since become stationary.