Sentences with phrase «influence glacier mass»

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The results highlight how the interaction between ocean conditions and the bedrock beneath a glacier can influence the frozen mass, helping scientists better predict future Antarctica ice loss and global sea level rise.

Whether the loss of mass by the glaciers is due to natural variation or is caused by human - influenced warming of the oceans is not known for sure.

Evidence from glacial advance / retreat (e.g. the evidence from tropical Andean glaciers you cite above) is often difficult to interpret, because glacial mass balance represents in general a subtle competition between the influences of ablation (determined by changes in temperature thresholds reached) and accumulation (determined by changes in humidity and precipitation).

In commenting on their findings, the three researchers write that «the large number of stable glacier termini and glacier advances is influenced by positive glacier mass balances in the central Karakoram during the last decade,» citing Gardelle et al. (2012, 2013) and Kaab et al. (2012), which they indicate is «induced by increasing winter precipitation and decreasing summer temperatures since the 1960s,» citing Archer and Fowler (2004), Williams and Ferrigno (2010), Bolch et al. (2012), Yao et al. (2012) and Bocchiola and Diolaiuti (2013).

As for future influences of melting glaciers, consider that the Arctic, which goes through regular 60 - to 70 - year - long warming and cooling cycles, has most recently been losing some ice mass, while most of the vastly larger Antarctic continent has been gaining.

Bradley, R.S. and England, J., 1978: Influence of volcanic dust on glacier mass balance at high latitudes.

As the authors put it in their paper, reductions in emissions «will only have very limited influence on on glacier mass change in the twenty - first century».

Marzeion, B. et al. (2018) Limited influence of climate change mitigation on short - term glacier mass loss, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / s41558 -018-0093-1