Sentences with phrase «melting of snow»

There was also an unusually large amount of mass loss during the 2010 summer due to extensive melting of snow and ice.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

In the U.S., scientists believe that the reduced snowpack and early melting of snow in the Sierra Nevada was one of the factors behind the long, extreme drought that began affecting California in 2011.

Hamish Pritchard prepares us, «In most places in Antarctica, we can't explain the ice - shelf thinning through melting of snow at the surface, so it has to be driven by warm ocean currents melting them from below.

Maybe we «let justice roll down like waters» — not in torrents of rhetoric nor cataclysmic tides of revolution, but in the slow melting of the snow - mass of backed - up grievances, by the ambiguous resolution of human tragedies in thousands of little courtrooms across the land.

I was glad when Sunday dawned bright and clear but, alas, the sun was not warm enough to melt all of the snow away, and we still have snow covered ground out there.

Other changes flow from this warming, including melting of snow and ice, rising sea level, and increases in some types of extreme weather, such as extreme heat and heavy downpours.

Rapid melting of snow / ice and heavy rainfall has resulted in the formation and expansion of moraine - dammed lakes, creating a potential danger from dammed lake outburst floods1.

«We know for sure that the triggering mechanism was the surface melting of snow and ice, but we do not fully understand the complex array of processes that generate solitary waves,» JPL scientist and study lead author Surendra Adhikari said.

Warmer temperatures leads to earlier melting of the snow, he said, and that is a well - documented phenomenon throughout the western United States.

With a fiery passion that burns so hot and yet still doesn't manage to melt any of the snow.

UK211 underwent many changes, but the one that immediately preceded its sudden demise was the melting of snow that transformed the berg's surface into waterlogged slush.

«Then we can examine how the melt of the snow and the runoff changes in light of the percentage of each city's impervious surface.

The snow algae specialist comments on the study: «For the first time ever, researchers have investigated the large - scale effect of microorganisms on the melting of snow and ice the Arctic.»

Lengthy series of observation times show that the total amount of snow in the Northern Hemisphere has declined in the spring period and that the melting of the snow has started earlier in the same period.

Black carbon, the product of burning wood or other carbon - based fuels, heats the air directly, accelerates the melting of any snow it lands on, and creates so - called brown clouds that warm the sky.

«The warming effect could be through the direct heating to the air, snow and sea ice by absorbing sunlight, and then accelerating the melting of snow and sea ice,» Wang said.

«The strong south air flow onto Greenland has produced warm air, rain instead of snow, and melting of snow that is in Nuuk,» Greenland's capital, Jason Box, a researcher with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, said by email.

Using the horn that the Snowmads left behind, Donkey Kong blows into it, melting all of the snow and ice, and returning Donkey Kong Island back to normal.

The IPCC last year noted that «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.»

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level (see Figure SPM.3).

Every hear about how SNOW reflects so much solar energy that the melting of that snow is going to accelerate global warming?

This increases the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the surface, which, in turn, accelerates the melting of snow and ice.

(1) there is established scientific concern over warming of the climate system based upon evidence from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level;

But as temperatures have risen, melting some of that snow, so too have the state's waterways.

Melting of snow and glaciers will lead to increased freshwater influx, changing the chemistry of those oceanic areas affected by the runoff.

Smoke from the fires is lofting high into the atmosphere, and is drifting toward the Arctic, where soot can hasten the melting of snow and sea ice.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level

But now it has come out on the surface because of the melting of snow due to global warming,» says Sherpa.

It stated for instance, «Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level».

It highlighted «increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.»

Floods can be caused by hurricanes, melting of snow, water backup drainage burst, heavy storms and many more.