Sentences with phrase «glaciers which»

Third and last, is this statement by a 2004 article by Monbiot true, «the Himalayan glaciers which feed the Ganges, the Bramaputra, the Mekong, the Yangtze and the other great Asian rivers are likely to disappear within 40 years.»?

An ice sheet forms when snow falls on land, compacts into ice, and forms a system of interconnected glaciers which gradually flow downhill like play - dough.

The melting of the Himalayan glaciers which is happening right now will affect China and all Asian rivers.

Climate change is already changing rainwater patterns with catastrophic consequences, and shrinking the glaciers which many millions of people rely on to provide water throughout the year.

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.

The fraction of known glaciers which actually have enough data to even estimate whether they are advancing or retreating is tiny.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.

Many streams in Lo are not fed by glaciers which have the most dependable water resources.

When the ice sheets go, the glaciers which they buttress pick up speed.

Bangladesh will be under water, rural Asia and Latin America will have their fresh water cut off due to the disappearance of the glaciers which feed their rivers, the third world will be unable to buy enough food due to widespread drought.

In the main text, they describe glaciers which have continued to have roughly constant mass balance loss, then neighboring glaciers which have suddenly sped up, with one going from a mass loss of 5 to 36 cubic kilometers in nine years.

Secondly our attention has been focussed first on the largest glaciers which makes sense.

I would like to echo Mr. Edmonds inquiry as to the stability of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers which seem to connect directly to the Byrd Subpolar Basin, where the ice sheets are grounded far below sea level.

Once people understand that sea - levels will continue to rise, will eventually make most major cities uninhabitable, and the glaciers which feed much or Asia's agriculture will disappear, marine life will face an acid catastrophe, and nobody can see how a net food deficit can be avoided, we all know that the political option of «just adapt to it when it happens» will melt away as fast as the glaciers.

The terrain is fairly jagged, with many gullies and streams fed by glaciers which eventually pour into the Urubamba river, which crosses the area forming a deep valley which runs through the granite base of Vilcabamba for more than 40 km through a variety of eco-systems.

Once people understand that sea - levels will continue to rise, will eventually make most major cities uninhabitable, and the glaciers which feed much or Asia's agriculture will disappear, marine life will face an acid catastrophe, and nobody can see how a net food deficit can be avoided, we all know that the political option of «just adapt to it when it happens» will melt away as fast as the glaciers.

I would like to echo Mr. Edmonds inquiry as to the stability of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers which seem to connect directly to the Byrd Subpolar Basin, where the ice sheets are grounded far below sea level.

«We are now seeing summer speeds more than 4 times what they were in the 1990s on a glacier which at that time was believed to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, glacier in Greenland,» says Ian Joughin, a researcher at the Polar Science Center, University of Washington and lead - author of 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.

This lagoon is brimful with icebergs, thanks to Breiðamerkurjökull glacier which is slowly melting.

This also increases frictional heating at the base of the glacier which produces meltwater which lubricates the slide like you taking a tube of KY and oh nevermind you probably wouldn't get it.

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

Unlike the Mt. Kenya glacier which has a typical descending flow shape, the Kilimanjaro glacier is a big tall block sitting on dark lava scree.

LONDON, 6 February — A fast - moving Arctic glacier which has earned a place in history is now accelerating even more quickly.

«We are now seeing summer speeds more than four times what they were in the 1990s, on a glacier which at that time was believed to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, glacier in Greenland,» said Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center and the lead author of the paper.

How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America.

Not exact matches

Icelandic banks played the carry trade too, and foreign banks followed suit by creating «glacier bonds,» which were repackaged Icelandic bonds sold to investors outside the country.

«These peripheral glaciers and ice caps can be thought of as colonies of ice that are in rapid decline, many of which will likely disappear in the near future,» said one of the researchers, geologist Ian Howat from Ohio State University.

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Known as the gateway to the Rocky Mountains, Alberta is home to several UNESCO World Heritage sites, which includes the Dinosaur Provincial Park and thousand - year - old glaciers at the Columbia Icefield.

Increased atmospheric heat obviously makes temperatures warmer, which leaves less time for ice to form and solidify and create new layers on glaciers and ice sheets.

Since overall the changes heat the Earth, the glaciers from which major rivers flow are melting.

This article from the U.N. press office certainly has a punchy lede: «Criminal gangs are becoming a threat to the world's glaciers, which are already receding as a result of climate change.»

So strong is the hold of these tangled waters on Kyle that, even when not fishing, he's still cruising them aboard his stately, carvel - planked Home Shore from which he and son Ben conduct kayak charters that guide paddlers of all stripes within fathoms of brown bears and blue glaciers.

The result was what he calls «a pressure defense,» which is not frantic and fast, but abrasive and relentless as a glacier.

The pink - white glaciers and crystal tarns, the rushing streams and slag - gray rocks, the emerald brush and dusty trails are mere handservants to the sun, which is in command.

To climb a Swiss glacier a person has to spend the night before up on the mountain in a cabin, sometimes with a bunch of Belgian Boy Scouts whose counselors make them sing non-stop, in English, songs like When the Saints Go Marching In or We Shall Overcome, which doesn't make it any easier to get up at 4 a.m., as glacier climbers in Switzerland do.

A glacier is made up of thousands of tons of ice which is layered in sheets and covers miles and miles.

The agreement demarcated the Ceasefire Line, which ran along their international border, and then north and northeast until map grid - point NJ 9842, located at the southern end of the Siachen glacier.

By capturing the glacier, India violated the Simla agreement, which had specifically stated: «Neither side shall seek to alter it [Line of Control] unilaterally irrespective of mutual differences and legal interpretations.

Both sides agreed — in the vague language, which lies at the heart of the Siachen dispute — that the Ceasefire Line extends to the terminal point, NJ 9842, and «thence north to the glaciers.»

That was what «a senior member of Mr Cameron's shadow cabinet» told last Monday's Daily Telegraph about the Tory leader's visit to a Norwegian glacier (for which Mr Cameron left London this afternoon).

The data also show a land bump, or sill, at the mouth of Skinfaxe glacier, which prevents warmer, deep Atlantic water (yellow on temperature bar) from reaching the ice.

The hydrological cycle — which includes surface and ground sources, glaciers, precipitation, runoff and vaporization — is very sensitive to small climatic shifts.

He is the principal investigator for a mission called Oceans Melting Greenland (affectionately known as OMG), a five - year effort to assess the extent to which warmer oceans are melting Greenland's glaciers, and how this information can be used to better estimate global sea level rise.

Light blue represents the region in which the glacier's ice front has advanced and retreated over time.

The floating mountains of ice — some of which start out Connecticut - sized or larger — scraped up bits of rock when they were parts of glaciers on land.

«The glaciers, particularly in the Himalayas, may disappear and cause some of the major rivers to become much more variable, which will have negative effects on yields in south Asia,» Nelson notes.

But while the IPCC bungled its numbers, climate's influence on Himalayan glaciers is still a looming concern for many scientists and governments, which worry about how warming will affect the region's water cycle.