If cooling were building up mass in high glaciers or high
latitude ice caps, we would see length of day getting shorter.
Not exact matches
Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar
ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with
latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).
The World Data Center (WDC) for Paleoclimatology maintains archives of
ice core data from polar and low -
latitude mountain glaciers and
ice caps throughout the world.
8 High
Latitude Climates The surfaces of
ice cap regions are constantly covered with snow and
ice.
And before anyone starts screaming about the
ice caps melting, let's keep in mind that T ^ 4 applies by
latitude as well as season.
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).