Sentences with phrase «land ice area»

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).

Reactions on longer time frames (about 50 years LIA, 600 years glacial - interglacial, many thousands of years interglacial - glacial) involves (deep) ocean temperatures, ocean current changes, vegetation / land ice area changes,...

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The sports facility, to be built on Park District - owned land at Plainfield and Clarendon Hills Roads, would include an ice rink, multipurpose room, indoor fieldhouse for soccer or in - line hockey, concession area, pro shop and locker rooms.

The advancing ice could also bury some agricultural lands and make the planet an overall colder place, «likely reducing the total amount of habitable area on Earth,» Haqq - Misra wrote in a paper laying out the thought experiment.

Chris Borstad, a geophysicist at the University Centre in Svalbard, Norway, is particularly interested in Larsen C's «suture zones» — areas where glacial ice flows off land and merges.

The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth's total surface area — oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined.

«Right now, pregnant females foraging offshore in summer must wait up to a month longer than they did just 10 years ago for new sea ice to form so they can travel to denning areas on land,» says Steve Amstrup of the USGS.

Almost 10 percent of the planet's land area sits locked under glacial ice, where humans have never ventured.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

Grey areas are barren land or ice covered.

Rapidly changing ecosystems are threatening wildlife and the indigenous populations that depend on it, while thawing land and melting ice are shortening shipping routes and opening up new areas for development of fossil fuels and minerals.

Here are some satellite tracks, from NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), revealing areas of dynamic thinning (red) in Antarctica and Greenland [click to enlarge].

[7] The IceCon project aims to gain a better understanding of the rate of the loss of ice — now and in the past - from the Antarctic ice sheet in the Dronning Maud Land area, and includes six partners: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Royal Observatory of Belgium, University of Luxembourg, Norwegian Polar Institute, and Aberystwyth University.

Rising global temperatures have also made glaciers — ice masses that currently occupy nearly 10 percent of the world's total land area — increasingly unstable.

The accelerating melting of land ice into the sea makes the surface of the ocean around Antarctica colder, less salty and more easily frozen, leading to extensive sea ice in some areas.

The importance of orbital variations, of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O, of the albedo of land ice sheets, annual mean snow cover, sea ice area and vegetation, and of the radiative perturbation of mineral dust in the atmosphere are investigated.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Because the bulk of the icemelt is localized to a few areas, Greenland, West Antarctica probably, we need to treat the effect of the gravitational attraction of (land) ice for water.

This means that all the energy going into the melting of sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers plus the warming of land and atmosphere is the tiny gap between the blue area and the red line.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

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Because the bulk of the icemelt is localized to a few areas, Greenland, West Antarctica probably, we need to treat the effect of the gravitational attraction of (land) ice for water.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

This empirical climate sensitivity corresponds to the Charney (1979) definition of climate sensitivity, in which «fast feedback» processes are allowed to operate, but long - lived atmospheric gases, ice sheet area, land area and vegetation cover are fixed forcings.

Remember for a long time «pingos» were surface land features — odd hills on the flat tundra, in areas that that had been under the ice age ice, then had been underwater as that ice melted and sea level rose, then exposed again during the next ice age.

About half the world's land area that isn't covered with ice or sand is devoted to food production.

In addition, some land areas are rising and some are subsiding in response to the end of the last Ice Age or due to local anthropogenic processes (e.g. groundwater withdrawal), which local planners need to account for.

Finally, if the North American hydrologic cycle is enhanced, and / or Greenland's southern ice caps melt, the increased fresh water runoff from land areas could dilute the ocean surface water and critically reduce its salinity.

The area of ice lost was more than the land area east of the Mississippi.

Whether the storm was over land, ocean or coastal areas, clouds with more ice produced more lightning, researchers studying satellite radar images report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Since snow and ice advance and retreat, the «land» and «Antarctic» areas would change which would change the ratios.

The different ice areas in and around the Arctic behave differently to oceanic currents, local SST, land boundaries, weather systems, and wind.

Both rise in some heavily sunken areas with massive glaciers and subsistence in land tide gauges in areas not covered by ice 15,000 years ago.

And while you are doing that, davie, you might tell us in your own words how less than 1c warming since the end of the little ice age and the beginning of the industrial revolution, measured with ever changing systems in areas of exponential land use change by people who have a total, consensual belief in global warming by ACO2 and no demonstrable scientific scepticism whatsoever, must constitute a «bad thing», awa being scientifically based and believable.

Indeed, as I mentioned back in Germany, the earth is now thought to have become completely covered with ice and snow on some occasions, all of the land and sea surfaces white except for a few hot springs areas such as Iceland.

A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.

Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.

The Greenland ice sheet is poised for another record melt this year, and is approaching a «tipping point» into a new and more dangerous melt regime in which the summer melt area covers the entire land mass, according to new findings from polar researchers.

For example, although the sample size has been very small, studies of radio - collared seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas observed those seals rarely hauled out at all, on land or sea ice, even when occupying ice covered areas.

This means that when the area is cover with ice or with water or with part ice part water, it will have it's anomaly extrapolated from land, regardless.

This means that all the energy going into the melting of sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers plus the warming of land and atmosphere is the tiny gap between the blue area and the red line.

The size of the Antarctic ice sheet is roughly the land area of the contiguous United States and Mexico combined, while the Greenland ice sheet is three times the size of Texas.

Over Greenland and other ice - covered land areas the snow product is not available (green areas).

Or you could plot the fourth powers of the temperatures in K, approximate a uniform function that fits both periods taking into account what observations from sea ice and land area deglaciation and humidity levels tell us, and derive a metric.

Compared with the median ice cover from 1981 - 2010, 2013's Arctic sea ice loss comes out to approximately 1.74 times the land area of Texas.

For the high Arctic, we have already noted that there are relatively few land stations, (a handful above 80N), and most of this area is currently still covered by permanent sea ice.