Sentences with phrase «highest calving»

Hence the above velocity map of the glacier will indicate higher average velocities in the quadrants with the highest calving volume flux.

The only similar glacier on the Northern Icefield, is the San Rafael (which used to have a high calving flux and velocity until it started receding into shallow water).

Higher calving flux indicates higher velocities (Van Den Broecke et al, 2009).

Not exact matches

The dairy calving rate was highest in the Temperate Coast South region with 86 per 100 cows, followed by the Temperate Coast West region at 85 per cows.

The Wheatbelt Central East region had the highest meat calving rate of 86 per 100 cows with the Tropics region reporting the lowest at 60 per 100 cows.

The main difference here is that colostrum (taken within 6 hours of calving) has much higher protein levels, and that's why colostrum is filled with all the wonderful proline rich polypeptides that have such amazing benefits for our health (these are basically a type of protein, but a rather special type in terms of it's affects on building the immune system).

Finally, extra padding is given to a calve roll bar for comfort during high - volume crunch and sit - up sessions.

Some hit high, some low (which will make a difference to the thicker - calved), some are tight on your legs, while some are so wide I could've fit both legs into them.

Whales also move nutrients thousands of miles from productive feeding areas at high latitudes to calving areas at lower latitudes.

If I may add one more speculative question: are the portions of glacial sheets formed during periods of high ice flux less stable, and more prone to calving, than those formed during slow flux?

In both cases the calving sites where some meters higher and covered either by mainly steppe vegetation (2010, Stipa - Festuca Steppe) or Leymus ramosus grassland on fallow fields.

In addition the animals have been congregating for calving, which does contribute to a higher background stress.

This will produce a vertical torque, especially at times of high tides (see my # 3), resulting in increased calving.

(3) Phase of major retreat and decay of the ice sheet resulting in high sediment (IRD) input by calving icebergs.

We use the equations in (Rahmstorf, S. 2007), and allow users to examine the impact of higher or lower future SLR per degree of warming through a sensitivity parameter, so that users can examine, for example, the impact of higher future rates of SLR due to accelerating melt and calving from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.

Scientists know these processes can lead to collapse, because it's already happening: In Greenland, the Jakobshavn glacier is in rapid retreat, with the unstable calving cliff now more than 250 feet high, about as tall as the Statue of Liberty.