Sentences with phrase «line retreat rates»

Thwaites, meanwhile, also continues to rank among of the fastest - shrinking glaciers, and has seen its grounding line retreat rate increase slightly compared to the earlier period, which Konrad said «should emphasize once more that this glacier is under threat.»

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The retreat of the grounding line at these glaciers is more than five times that rate.

Here a 40 - kilometre line of cliffs has been retreating for some 6000 years at about the current rate of 2 metres a year.

As a LEED platinum - rated property, the 62 - room Bardessono is a premier wine county retreat with top - of - the - line amenities and service.

«The Arctic is warming at almost twice the rate as the rest of the world, and in the next 100 years, the permafrost line could retreat 300 kilometres north.

Marine ice sheet instability occurs when sub-shelf melt rate is large enough to force the ice sheet grounding line to retreat into an area where the ice is grounded below sea level on an inward - sloping bedrock, then it can become unstable.

According to one of the studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, which used radar measurements from the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 1 satellite, Smith Glacier's «grounding line» — the boundary between the bedrock and the ocean — has been retreating at a rate of 1.24 miles per year since 1996.

According to the new study — Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland — published today in Science, the glacier's rate of seaward movement has tripled in velocity even as the pace of ice thinning along its grounding line doubled:

It is the focus of intense current concern because the area near its grounding line, where it feeds a floating ice shelf, has exhibited rapidly increasing rates of thinning and concurrent retreat of the grounding line.