Sentences with phrase «in ice mass»

They investigated using different parameter values in the model and exploring the variation in the result and found a great deal of variation in ice mass loss rates was possible.

They were not expecting a surge; their goal was to assess fluctuations in ice mass.

The net change in ice mass is the difference between this accumulation and peripheral loss.

Joughin's and Tulaczyk's paper, published in Science in 2002, documents an increase in ice mass for one region of the WAIS called the Ross Sea Sector.

This is a particular concern near Greenland, the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Icesheet, and Alaska, where large trends in the ice masses lead to large trends in the gravity signal.

By combining GOCE's high - resolution measurements with information from Grace, scientists can now look at changes in ice mass in small glacial systems — offering even greater insight into the dynamics of Antarctica's different basins.

The reduction in the ice mass has contributed to global average sea - level rise of 25 millimeters.

# 46, in the interior of polar continents and very large islands (Antarctica, Greenland), increased precipitation as snow resulting from the increase in warmer air's capacity to hold moisture, results in an increase in ice mass balance.

Much of the team's analysis was conducted using data from two different satellites - ICEStat, and GRACE which measure changes in ice mass using lasers and change in the earth's gravimetric field respectively.

And since you have missed this acceleration you have assumed that the rate will remain at 3.3 mm / year for the rest of this century, despite ongoing observations of increases in ice mass loss in Greenland and parts of Antarctica.

Rignot et al have updated results, including those from the GRACE gravity measurement satellite, to the end of 2010 and show that the downward trend in ice mass is continuing (stronger in Greenland than in Antarctica).

One year of winter ice ceover is clearly not enough to predict a change in the ice mass trend, but I think one year may be enough to sense a change in public attitude with regard to the reality and seriousness of AGW.

«This will help us gain further comparison with results from CryoSat for an even more reliable picture of actual changes in ice mass.»

Using gravity data to assess changes in ice mass is not new.

«We're building a picture of the temperature structure that will constrain numerical models of how Antarctica responds to changes in ice mass,» Wiens said.

The ice melting from ocean heat flux decreases faster than the ice growth does in the weakly stratified Southern Ocean, leading to an increase in the net ice production and hence an increase in ice mass.»

GPS stations record how the bedrock is moving in response to changes in ice mass.

Sea levels are effected by movement of land masses both upward and downward, changes in gravitational pulls on the water due to changes in ice masses.

Large changes in ice mass are generally tightly coupled to grounding - line migration.

We need to quantify and understand these feedbacks so that we can assess the energy budget at the ice sheet surface and predict future changes in ice mass.