Sentences with phrase «ice per year»

I would encourage you to take up ice climbing and go «rub your nose» against a few thousand vertical feet of ice per year.

In total, researchers found that Antarctica was losing roughly 1,929 gigatons of ice per year in 2015, the vast majority of which is replaced by new snowfall.

They found that the northeast Greenland ice sheet lost about 10 billion tons of ice per year from April 2003 to April 2012.

The most worrying changes are happening in Greenland, which lost an average of 375bn tonnes of ice per year between 2011 and 2014 — almost twice the rate at which it disappeared between 2003 and 2008 (see chart).

The dataset revealed that Antarctica gained 272 billion tons more ice per year in the first decade of the 21st century compared with the first decade of the 19th.

Similarly, if freezing of ice & snow was supplying heat that could warm the oceans - hard to imagine what the process might be but theoretically possible so we need to consider it - this would require the freezing of around 12,500 Billion tonnes of extra ice per year.

Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost an average of 20,800 square miles of sea ice per year, while the Antarctic has gained an annual average of 7,300 square miles.

Over the past century, the Antarctic has gone from being a vast Terra Incognita to a continent - sized ticking time bomb: according to NASA, Antarctica has lost «approximately 125 gigatons of ice per year [between 2002 and 2016], causing global sea level to rise by 0.35 millimeters...

Iceland's more than 300 glaciers are losing approximately 11 billion tons of ice per year due to climate change.

And in an alarming sign of events to come, Antarctica has been losing about 134 billion metric tons of ice per year since 2002.

But in total, Antarctic ice shelves lost 2,921 trillion pounds (1,325 trillion kilograms) of ice per year in 2003 to 2008 through basal melt, while iceberg formation accounted for 2,400 trillion pounds (1,089 trillion kilograms) of mass loss each year.

According to his calculations, the ice shelf was losing 13 cubic miles of ice per year from its underside; back near the grounding line, the ice was probably thinning up to 300 feet per year.

In 2008 a satellite study based on rates of snowfall and ice movement estimated a loss of 210 cubic kilometers of ice per year — a 59 percent increase in the past decade.

Ongoing climate change could be partly to blame: Antarctica is losing about 200 gigatonnes of ice per year, and for Greenland the figure is 300 gigatonnes.

Now that West Antarctica is losing weight — that is, billions of tons of ice per year — its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica.

Last March, geophysicists Isabella Velicogna and John Wahr at the University of Colorado at Boulder published a paper in Science Express that used GRACE data to show that the ice sheet covering Antarctica has shrunk by an average of 36 cubic miles of ice per year — surprising, given that many climate models predict a thickening of the ice as higher global temperatures lead to more evaporation and precipitation.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

The Greenland ice sheet loses about 227 gigatonnes of ice per year and contributes about 0.7 millimeters to the currently observed mean sea level change of about 3 mm per year.

New data show ice shelves are collectively losing 100 billion tons of ice per year, and glaciers have accelerated by up to 70 percent.

Results published in May show this region crossed an invisible threshold in 2009, with a dozen major glaciers simultaneously starting to thin, sweating off 60 billion tons of ice per year.

According to NASA, the Arctic has lost about 54,000 square kilometers of ice per year, while the Antarctic has a net gain of about 19,000 square kilometers.

Between 2007 and 2011, the Greenland Ice Sheet lost about 260 billion tons of ice per year, mostly due to melt.

All told, this little moon may feed the E-ring 45 million kilograms (50,000 tons) of ice per year.

They also raise new questions about the future stability of West Antarctica's massive coastal glaciers, which are currently shedding billions of tons of ice per year.

Greenland alone is losing an astonishing 250 gigatonnes of ice per year!

NASA research itself, for instance, finds that Greenland is losing 287 billion tons of ice per year, while Antarctica is losing 134 billion tons.

Overall, I estimate the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet to be about -80 + / -10 cubic km of ice per year in 2000 and -110 + / -15 cubic km of ice per year in 2004, i.e. more negative than based on partial altimetry surveys of the outlet glaciers.

The researchers «weighed» Antarctica's ice sheet using gravitational satellite data and found that from 2003 to 2014, the ice sheet lost 92 billion tons of ice per year - that's more than five times the height of the Empire State Building.

In the 1960s, the ice sheet was losing 100 gigtonnes of ice per year.

Ice sheet mass decreased at 152 ± 80 cubic kilometers of ice per year, equal to 0.4 ± 0.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

Later research showed Antarctica and Greenland have both lost overall mass at about 120 gigatons of ice per year.

Satellite measurements reveal that the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are shedding about 125 billion tons of ice per year — enough to raise sea levels by 0.35 millimeters (0.01 inches) per year.

For Antarctica as a whole, the study found the current rate of ice sheet mass loss to be about 160 billion metric tons of ice per year.

The Antarctic Peninsula, which is the fastest - warming region on the continent, has been shedding about 23 billion metric tons of ice per year, the study found.

In West Antarctica, the satellite data shows a mass loss of about 134 billion metric tons of ice per year, which is 31 % greater than over the 2005 to 2011 period.

East Antarctica is losing a relatively small amount of 3 billion metric tons of ice per year, the study found, and McMillan described that part of Antarctica as «roughly in balance.»

***** GRACE data show that between 2002 and 2016, Greenland lost approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year.

The Pine Island glacier is losing about 78 cubic kilometrs (30 cubic miles) of ice per year, the researchers at Columbia University -LSB-...]

Research based on observations from the NASA / German Aerospace Center's twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites indicates that between 2002 and 2016, Greenland shed approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year, causing...

Currently, this ice loss has increased to around 300 billion tonnes of ice per year.