Sentences with phrase «information about the glaciers»

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They also used standard radiometric techniques to date stalagmites from Eagle Cave, which gave them information about fluxes in precipitation during the time the glaciers covered the land.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

The endeavor becomes more scientifically challenging in light of the large variety of information sources about past climate, including tree rings, coral, glacier ice, and marine and lake sediments, not to mention the complicated array of data that are used to establish the timelines that underlie the paleoclimate records.

OK, we'll ignore the 2035 glacier melt, the politicizing, the scare - tactics, the use of non-peer-reviewed information, the use of magazine articles (where the 2035 melt idea came from), not to mention the fact you knew about it before COP15.

The tree - ring data match other information about long - term climate change, like the data from ice cores drilled out of ancient glaciers.

The NY Times has a detailed article by Justin Gillis about the loss of ice from glaciers, principally in Greenland and the dearth of information about the ice loss as more and more satellites take the plunge.

In January 2011, a team of nearly 40 Australian and international scientists braved the Southern Ocean to deploy underwater cameras, moorings and sensors to study the glacier and its surrounding waters, with the mission of uncovering new information about the Earth's changing climate.

# 17 Thank you Kenneth for the link to a great site and great information about the Indian glaciers.

Rapid melting of Greenland's glaciers has also produced a special category of earthquake known as a glacialquake.15, 8 Helheim glacier triggered nearly 20 percent of the 136 glacialquakes recorded from January 1993 to October 2005 in Greenland — second only to the nearby Kangerdlugssuaq glacier.15 (See Kangerdlugssuaq hotspot for more information about glacialquakes.)

Further information about high - elevation precipitation was obtained by analyzing the glacier inventory for British Columbia developed by the University of Northern British Columbia (Bolch et al., 2010).

If you read this blog regularly, you probably noticed we include quite a bit of information about how both the Arctic and Antarctica are warming and sea ice and glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates.

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