Sentences with phrase «loss of ice»

The survey shows that there was a net loss of ice from the combined polar ice sheets between 1992 and 2002 and a corresponding rise in sea level.

«But since the 1960's the mountain has seen more even loss of ice in shaded and sun - exposed ice,» he said.

These vary as sea level changes from growth or loss of ice sheets through the ice age cycles.

This represents a net loss of ice thickness exceeding 14 m or 20 - 40 % of their total volume since 1984 due to negative mass balances.

Loss of ice cap will decrease albedo to the point of causing an abrupt spike in temperature that will end 90 % of primary plant production, for two or three years.

Might we see a rapid loss of ice extent in the near future?

It is likely that the primary reason for the large loss of ice this summer is that the ice cover has continued to thin and become more dominated by seasonal ice.

That is they have underestimated the dramatic loss of ice.

The drastic melt of 2007 remains the record loss of ice area in the satellite era, although subsequent years have still been below the long - term average.

The resulting loss of ice has contributed to the observed rise in sea level.

What we've seen is an awesome loss of ice, 40 percent of what we used to have in the 1970s.

It is the first winter ice loss of an ice shelf ever observed, and so was surprising.

Joughin et al. (2010) applied a numerical ice sheet model to predicting the future of PIG, their model suggested ongoing loss of ice mass from PIG, with a maximum rate of global sea level rise of 2.7 cm per century.

Such precipitous loss of ice cover far outpaces anything climate models or scientists have predicted.

There is a warm sea surface anomaly that has been persistent in the area between Greenland & Newfoundland for the past few years (even in winter) that may be part of the cause for loss of ice on the margins in the south of Greenland.

Sea ice is lost due to increasing ocean heat transport into the arctic and the resulting loss of ice causes the atmosphere to warm.

The rate of loss of ice from Greenland is estimated at 199.72 plus - or - minus 6.28 gigatonnes per year.

For example, climate change has already led to: more negative than positive impacts to crops, such as wheat and maize; coral bleaching and species range shifts; more frequent heat waves; coastal flooding; increased tree die - off in various regions; and a significant loss of ice mass in places like Greenland and Antarctica.

Shepherd said Hansen and his colleagues used a relatively short time period — 15 years — to calculate the accelerated loss of ice from Greenland and Antarctica due to climate change, and that he would «exercise caution when interpreting such numbers.»

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

Credit: NASA / SVS Other recent studies have shown increasing losses of ice in parts of these sheets.

While alarmists predict total loss of ice by 2030 (and earlier predictions have already failed), believers in the power of natural cycles expect Arctic sea ice to rebound by 2030.

Two regions of the WAIS, the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas, have experienced especially dramatic losses of ice over the last couple of decades.

From 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible: about 25 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 64).

(Can this measured loss of ice still be a residual effect of the big multiyear - ice «flush» years ago?)

Further loss of the ice shelves that restrain inland glaciers could contribute to future increases in the rate of sea level rise, the researchers say.

I've had trouble finding estimates of loss of ice thickness, but it is clear that arctic sea ice has thinned considerably.

So forest fires, melting permafrost and loss of ice drive up the warming that itself speeds up the warming.

Aerial mapping of Kilimanjaro's summit in February 2000 revealed a 33 % loss of ice since the last map in 1989 and an 82 % decline since 1912, says geologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center in Columbus.

Antarctic sea ice saw an early maximum extent in 2016, followed by a very rapid loss of ice starting in early September.

The study concluded that there was a net loss of ice between 2002 and 2005, adding 0.4 millimetres per year to sea levels (see Gravity reveals shrinking Antarctic ice).

«This suggests a possible positive feedback mechanism whereby retreat of the outlet glacier, in part due to warming of the air and in part due to glacier dynamics, leads to increased dynamic loss of ice upstream.

The powerful 2015 - 2016 El Niño didn't cause a similar loss of ice, leading Paolo to suspect that multiple climate conditions need to be met to trigger a major melt.

I ask many questions about the process of ice melt in Antarctica, rather than the more popularly reported loss of ice in the Arctic.

Since the actual loss of ice is similar in magnitude to this figure, I conclude that a 1 watt / sq meter forcing is «big enough» to produce the melting actually seen, whereas geothermal energy is much too small.

To a glaciologist, it describes the transition to unavoidable loss of an ice sheet — a process that can take centuries to get into gear, and millenniums to complete.

There, temperatures hover just below the freezing point, so that even a small rise in temperature can cause a drastic loss of ice.

This is not the case in the Arctic where loss of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and Canadian Islands is caused by rising atmospheric temperature and a warming Arctic ocean.