Sentences with phrase «loss of mass»

This would result in a continual loss of mass until it is all gone.

Under all RCP scenarios the rate of sea level rise will very likely exceed that observed during 1971 — 2010 due to increased ocean warming and increased loss of mass from glaciers and ice sheets.

The drought that is devastating California and much of the West has dried the region so much that 240 gigatons worth of surface and groundwater have been lost, roughly the equivalent to a 3.9 - inch layer of water over the entire West, or the annual loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study.

The findings, published Monday in Nature Geoscience, reveal that the 1997 - 98 El Niño led to a substantial loss of mass from the bottom of the ice shelves in West Antarctica's Amundsen sea sector, even as the shelves appeared to grow about ten inches taller from additional snowfall.

These observations provide crucial information about how large regions of ice are behaving, such as the accelerating loss of mass from West Antarctica and the slower gains in East Antarctica.

• Loss of mass → Without constantly lifting heavy weights I've definitely lost some thickness in areas like my chest, legs, and buttocks.

Whereas flaming fires result in superficial heating of the soil, smoldering leads to sterilization and loss of mass above 90 percent (a layer of 5 meters is reduced to 30 centimeters).

During this period, scientists also observed an uptick in loss of mass around the Amundsen Sea region, and scientists had long suspected that substantial influx of warm water beneath the ice shelves must have taken place.

Recent observations of unpredicted, local acceleration and consequent loss of mass from both ice sheets (Alley et al., 2005) underscores the inadequacy of existing ice - sheet models, leaving no generally agreed basis for projection, particularly for WAIS (Lemke et al., 2007 Section 4.6.3.3; Meehl et al., 2007 Sections 10.6.4.2 and 10.7.4.4; Vieli and Payne, 2005).

In terms of the cumulative specific balances, Hintereisferner experienced a net loss of mass between 1952 and 1964, followed by a period of recovery till 1968.

(see Ex 6:3 in the KJV) And he changed energy into matter, which Albert Einstein established with his famous equation of E = mc2 or the amount of energy released when an atom is split equals the loss of its mass times the speed of light squared.

By observing the results of photoevaporation — which included the loss of mass from the pillars — they were able to deduce the culprits.

Small leaks are identified by the loss of mass / pressure within the system, but determining the leak's actual location is a time - consuming process for astronauts — and it can involve a spacewalk.

Steinn Sigurdsson, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, US, says he would like to know how the models deal with stellar evolution and the loss of mass expected when rotating stars collide.

In other words, the losses of mass of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will intensify — just like the models predict.»

The melting of Greenland contributes to the global sea level, but the loss of mass also means that the ice sheet's own gravitational field weakens and thus does not attract the surrounding sea as strongly.

Whether the loss of mass by the glaciers is due to natural variation or is caused by human - influenced warming of the oceans is not known for sure.

These nutrients come from muscle tissue, fat tissue, and — to a lesser degree — bones, which are also the three places you will see a loss of mass when you are on a calorie deficit diet for weight loss.

The loss of mass was attributed to a reduction in food intake rather than a direct mechanism.

If Antarctica were to rise this would not lessen the gravitational field as measured from space — by means of the differential influence of the gravitational field on two satellites separated by some distance as in the Grace Experiment — except insofar as the rising of the land mass pushed water away from Antarctica's coasts — but then the loss of mass would be in the waters surrounding Antarctica, not Antarctica itself.

If that much mass can be burned and thus destroyed, shouldn't the loss of mass cause a reduction in heat based on the reduction of the mass available for the sun's rays to heat up?

A rise in global mean sea level of between 0.09 and 0.88 metres by 2100 has been projected, mainly due to the thermal expansion of sea water and loss of mass from ice caps and glaciers».

In RAMS runs, we account for this loss of mass in calculating the pressure fields.

For the full set of SRES scenarios, a sea level rise of 0.09 to 0.88 m is projected for 1990 to 2100 (see Figure 24), primarily from thermal expansion and loss of mass from glaciers and ice caps.

A loss of mass from the ice sheet causes nearby ocean levels to fall as the mass and gravity of the ice sheet decreases.