Sentences with phrase «ice caps»

Look for the increasing rate of ice cap melt.

It could have been blown into space by the solar wind or frozen in the dry ice caps at the poles, but that wouldn't account for all the carbon.

For example, the arctic ice caps are not melting gradually.

They are able to use satellites to monitor things like the size of polar ice caps over time.

It was then that the enormous ice caps began to form and they have existed ever since, although there are still periods of advance and retreat.

These are the main options, given that the polar ice caps don't contain enough water to fill an ocean.

Remote sensing is already revealing the shape of a huge mountain range hidden beneath the southern ice cap.

How responsible is the melting of the polar ice caps for the weather that we are experiencing?

The rapid melt of small glaciers and mountain ice caps will be the main source of sea level rise over the next century, according to a new study.

And what's hiding inside a South American ice cap?

That's because ice caps and other long - lived bodies of ice tend to accumulate in layers.

I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore.

The findings revealed that a reduction in ice cap concentration was the most significant factor.

The darker ice would have absorbed more heat from the sun and a runaway process of collapsing ice caps would have begun.

If cooling were building up mass in high glaciers or high latitude ice caps, we would see length of day getting shorter.

A robust ice cap, due to its thermal capacity, can not melt away in summer.

The result is a dramatic image of historic sea level change that goes beyond what is expected in the coming decades due to rapid global warming - induced ice cap melting.

And those melting ice caps affect a whole lot more than polar bears.

The melting of the giant ice caps will also have odd gravitational effects.

The rest is in glaciers and ice caps spread around the world, and they, too, are generally melting.

There is a further underlying component to the snow - cover «bump» that radically changes the prognosis both for snow cover and ice cap density.

We neglect the other glaciers and ice caps at our peril.

We're all going to be in serious trouble with polar ice caps melting, rising sea levels and increased hurricane activity, most probably caused by shifting ocean temperatures.

Loss of ice cap will decrease albedo to the point of causing an abrupt spike in temperature that will end 90 % of primary plant production, for two or three years.

The reduction in size of global ice caps is hard to ignore.

Most climatologists believe that if temperatures rise more than another 1 degree C by 2100, conditions on the planet could become radically different and disruptive, including sharp shifts in precipitation patterns, more severe storms and droughts, the disappearance of the Arctic ice cap in summer, Greenland ice sheet instability, and much higher sea levels.

There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.

Wadhams and other scientists say the slowing of the Gulf Stream could contribute to other severe effects on the planet, such as the complete melting of the Arctic ice cap in the summer months.

These photographs show experimental drilling on the Greenland Ice Cap in summer 2005.

Scientists hope to refine ocean and climate models using new data collected by underwater robots deployed under Antarctic ice caps by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the California Institute of Technology.

El Niño thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.

Getting back to the New York Times article, so why is the Arctic ice cap shrinking if air temperatures aren't really warming in any significant way?

The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in history.

MOSCOW (Sputnik)-- The Antarctic sea ice cover has shrunk by almost a quarter, as as the Arctic sea ice cap decreased by almost 8 percent.