Sentences with phrase «local glaciers»

To my impression, these findings don't in any way contradict AGW findings, rather give more detailed insight in local glacier growth and retreat in history.

Lead author Nicolà ¡ s Young, who worked on the study as part of his PhD at UB and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, says, «It's not at all amazing that a small local glacier would grow in response to an event like this, but it is incredible that a large ice sheet would do the same.»

Temperatures were substantially lower, and local glaciers formed on the highest peaks.

Airborne soot produced by wildfires and fossil - fuel combustion and transported to the remote McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica contains levels of black carbon too low to contribute significantly to the melting of local glaciers,...

Mean annual air temperature is around -19.8 °C, and the majority of the local glaciers are cold throughout [17].

Li Zhongqin, director of the local glacier monitoring station, said «lots of people came because they thought it would be their last chance to do so.»