Sentences with phrase «ice discharge rates»

In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers calculated ice discharge rates for 178 Greenland glaciers more than one kilometer (0.62 miles) wide.

Not exact matches

A new NASA - led study has discovered an intriguing link between sea ice conditions and the melting rate of Totten Glacier, the glacier in East Antarctica that discharges the most ice into the ocean.

From 2008 to 2015, continent - wide rates of ice discharge increased by about 36 billion tons per year.

Pfeffer et al implicitly assume that for Greenland to contribute to SLR, ice must discharge to the ocean through bedrock gateways, which necessarily constrain the rate.

Although Zwally calculated the net «mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded losses from ice discharge by about 112 and 82 Gt / year respectively during the 1992 - 2001 and 2003 - 08 measurement periods», he also reported that the rate of ice loss along the west Antarctic coast and the peninsula had increased from 64 GT / year to 135 GT / year during those same periods.

The modest increase in ice discharge over the past 7 years is contrasted by high rates of ice sheet mass loss and distinct spatial patters of elevation lowering.

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