Sentences with phrase «high mountain glaciers»

You get ocean effect snowfall from a warm thawed ocean and that rebuilds ice on land in Greenland and on the high mountain glaciers.

Days are getting hotter, nights are getting cooler, and rising temperatures are causing the essential source of the region's water — high mountain glaciers — to melt away.

Not exact matches

For glaciers that extend from low to high elevation, measurements taken at the low end — the glacier's «snout» — may not tell scientists much about how the same ice sheet is behaving higher up the mountain.

More than 80 % of the ice on Africa's highest peak has melted since the early 20th century, joining other glaciers that are ebbing from the world's tropical mountains at an accelerating rate.

Africa's glaciers, which occur atop the world's highest tropical mountains, are among the most sensitive components of the world's frozen regions, but the climatic controls that influence their fluctuations are not fully understood.

They range from steamy lowland jungles, swamps, and floodplains to cloud forests, alpine grasslands, and glaciers capping mountains more than 16,000 feet high.

The recent paper in Quaternary Science Reviews is the first to date ancient glaciers in the high mountains of Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

«Even in this current warming climate, some mountains are so high that the temperatures are still below freezing, and the warming ocean may provide more precipitation to drive some of the glaciers to advance,» Batbaatar said.

Collecting ice cores from high - mountain glaciers most at risk from climate change and storing them in Antarctica for future generations of scientists: that is the goal of ICE MEMORY, an international program aimed at preserving the memory of high - mountain glaciers.

Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

To better understand the climate's impact on glaciers in the future, a team of researchers in Nepal, France and the Netherlands studied glaciers in the Dudh Kosi basin in the Himalayas, which is home to some of the world's highest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest.

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.

The body was brought to a hospital connected to a high profile university in a valley surrounded by mountains and glaciers.

The views constantly changed, and near the pass (the highest point of our trek), we had a grand vista of lakes, communities, and glacier - covered mountains around us.

With a unique canvas roll back top and individual doors for each row, these charming open - air buses are ideal for absorbing the startling beauty of the high mountain peaks, glaciers, waterfalls, and cedar forests that surround the spectacular Going - to - the - Sun - Highway.

Walk beneath the glacier - covered slopes of Cerro Paine, the highest summit in the range, and take in panoramic vistas of this extraordinary sweep of mountains.

On to Canada's Glacier National Park, where the motorcoach climbs 4,379 - foot - high Rogers Pass, a perfect spot for photos of the surrounding mountain cliffs and glaciers.

By far one of the most strikingly beautiful skydives in the world, Nzones Queenstown skydive captures views of snow capped mountains, canyon valleys and glacier lakes after a heart pumping free fall from 15,000 ft high

Whether you're walking atop a glacier or meandering the gorgeous streets of Whistler Village, you're sure to feel that Rocky Mountain high.

Bordered on two sides by National Parks, the tiny village sits against a backdrop of rugged high country, beautiful mountains, glacier fed rivers and ancient beech forests.

We'll take you deep into the Everest / Khumbu region, home to the world's highest peaks, massive glaciers, remote mountain villages and intriguing ancient cultures.

Travel from spectacular Queenstown to the garden city of Christchurch and experience famous West Coast hospitality, high snow topped mountains, glaciers and awesome rainforests as you enjoy one of the world's top five cycling journeys.

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One day, take a spectacular private helicopter flight over the Alps to Milford Sound, one of New Zealand's most iconic sights, and land on a glacier high in the mountains.

The track has been carefully crafted to show walkers all the very best features of Fiordland, from the prolific bird life and tussock high country, to the huge mountain ranges and vast glacier - carved valleys.

Glaciers and snowpack, the key cryospheric components of high mountain systems, are sensitive to increases in temperature, shifting atmospheric circulation patterns, and varying amounts and forms of precipitation.

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Whether we look at the steady increase in global temperature; the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to the highest level in a half - million years; the march of warmest - ever years (9 of the10 hottest on record have occurred since 2000); the dramatic shrinking of mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice; the accelerating rise in sea level; or the acidification of our oceans; the tale told by the evidence is consistent and it is compelling.

It also predicts that the other 45,000 glaciers in the world's highest mountain range will be virtually gone by then, with drastic consequences for billions of people in Asia, whose life depends on water that originates in the Himalayas.

As components of the global cryosphere, mountain glaciers are known for their high sensitivity to climate change.

However, their sensivity to specific climate conditions as indicated by a cross correlation coefficient of 0.69 was quite high for two glaciers in different, though adjacent, mountain ranges.

«One glacier on Chacaltaya mountain, which once hosted the world's highest ski resort, has already completely disappeared.

Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Maya Sherpa and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, who set the record of being the first Nepali women to successfully climb K2 on July 26, said the Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than ever before but people living in the high mountains are either unaware of or unconvinced about the reality of climate change.

The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush - Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

Climate change is causing significant mass loss of glaciers in high mountains worldwide.

Because Mt. Everest is high enough to produce snow when Monsoons come over the mountains, this recent heavy Monsoon deluge may have put a boatload of snow on that glacier.

The melting of mountain glaciers, particularly in the Himalayas, with the consequent forming of high altitude lakes.

However, glaciers in the Western, Central, and Eastern Himalayas are retreating, with the highest retreat rates - approximately 8 meters per year - in the Western Himalayan Mountains.

For example, chapter ten, «Ice melts, sea level rises,» discusses the disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers, estimates of sea level rise in the present century, estimates of its costs — the EPA estimated in 1991 that a one - meter rise would cost the US alone between $ 270 billion and $ 475 billion — evidence of past oceanic high - water marks and glacial extents, the dynamics of ice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.»

To know what these high numbers mean for local changes on the world's coastlines, you need a framework that accounts for all the key drivers: among them not just Antarctica, but also Greenland, mountain glaciers, the expansion of the warming ocean, changes in winds and current, shifts in Earth's gravitational field, and land motion.

Unless global temperatures are stabilized, higher seas from melting ice sheets and mountain glaciers, combined with the heat - driven expansion of ocean water itself, will eventually lead to the displacement of millions of people as low - lying coastal areas and island nations are inundated.

As well as adding to sea levels, melting glaciers have considerable impacts on high mountain regions and downstream communities that rely on them as a source of freshwater via glacier melt «runoff».

But mountain glaciers are still a concern because they «react very fast to higher temperatures and a considerable retreat is very likely in the next decades,» Huss said.

Whereas glaciers in the Asian high mountains have generally shrunk at varying rates (Su and Shi, 2002; Ren et al., 2004; Solomina et al., 2004; Dyurgerov and Meier, 2005), several high glaciers in the central Karakoram are reported to have advanced and / or thickened at their tongues (Hewitt, 2005), probably due to enhanced precipitation

The Himalayas is an enormous mountain range consisting of about 15,000 glaciers and some of the world's highest peaks, including the 8,848m - high Mount Everest and K2.

Even the melting of glaciers in the world's high mountains won't contribute more to rising sea levels, Wada said.

The Andes Mountains of South America are home to 99 percent of tropical glaciers --- permanent rivers of ice at high enough elevations not to be affected by the types of balmy temperatures usually associated with the tropics.

Nevertheless, the fast glacier recession in the tropics seems at first sight to be consistent with an increase in tropical freezing heights of 100 m over the period 1970 to 1986 as reported by Diaz and Graham (1996), corresponding to an increase of 0.5 °C at tropical high mountain levels, which they also link to increases in tropical SST since the mid-1970s (Figure 2.10).