Sentences with phrase «more ice per year»

The dataset revealed that Antarctica gained 272 billion tons more ice per year in the first decade of the 21st century compared with the first decade of the 19th.

Not exact matches

In exchange for the designated space and reserved ice time, the Wolves organization will pay the Park District $ 300,000 or more per year for 15 years.

A 10 per cent rise in snowfall in Antarctica is adding more ice to the continent each year, but the ice sheets are still shrinking because it's being lost faster too

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per yeIce Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per yeice per year.

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.

The largest contibution to global sea level rise from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets combined is around 16.9 mm per year, but is more likely to be around 5.4 mm per year by 2100.

The distribution is small — something like 100 cells per milliliter of melted ice — but researchers have been trying for years to drill down into the lake and determine if the lake itself is home to more abundant life.

Ice floes and rocky shores, quiet forests and the northern lights — Sweden is a beautiful country that attracts more than five - million tourists per year.

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Overall, I estimate the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet to be about -80 + / -10 cubic km of ice per year in 2000 and -110 + / -15 cubic km of ice per year in 2004, i.e. more negative than based on partial altimetry surveys of the outlet glaciers.

What a great gift to have a reliably ice - free Northwest passage for 2 - 3 months per year (it can't be much more than that, what with long sunless winters and efficient IR emissive cooling from exposed water).

In the couple of decades leading up to the most recent IPCC report, the ice sheets were losing slightly less than 0.001 % of their mass per year, a rate that would require more than 100,000 years to remove all of the ice, and the equivalent of me going on a diet for a year and losing about 1/3 of one potato chip.

The researchers «weighed» Antarctica's ice sheet using gravitational satellite data and found that from 2003 to 2014, the ice sheet lost 92 billion tons of ice per year - that's more than five times the height of the Empire State Building.

«The Canadian Ice Service, an arm of Environment Canada, said there is 10 per cent more ice this year compared to the 30 - year averaIce Service, an arm of Environment Canada, said there is 10 per cent more ice this year compared to the 30 - year averaice this year compared to the 30 - year average.

That is an astonishing number, more than 5 feet of ice per year, which is equivalent to more than seventy feet of annual snowfall!

There is more Antarctic ice than ever there was (NOT TRUE: RESEARCHERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL REPORTED THIS YEAR THAT OVERALL ICE LOSS IN ANTARCTICA HAS INCREASED ABOUT 75 PER CENT OVER THE 10 YEAR PERIOD FROM 1996 - 2006 AND THAT MODELS PREDICTING AN INCREASE IN ICE MASS ARE NOT BEARING OUT: IT»S DECLINING EVERYWHERE.)

And more recent estimates of the Antarctic mass balance contribution to sea level rise has the East Antarctica ice sheet gaining mass at a more accelerated pace for 2003 - 2013 than the mere +14 Gt per year identified by Shepherd et al. (2012) for 1992 - 2011.

The freeze date for lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere has moved later in the year, at an average rate of six days per 100 years, while the ice break - up date has moved up earlier in the year, at an average rate of a little more than six days over the last 100 years.6 Smaller lakes in North American show a uniform trend toward earlier ice break - up, up to 13 days early.7

Iceland's more than 300 glaciers are losing approximately 11 billion tons of ice per year due to climate change.

By 2003, this glacier — already among the world's fastest - moving — reached speeds of more than 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) per year.2 In just one day — between July 6 and 7, 2010 — satellite images showed that Jakobshavn Isbrae lost approximately 2.7 square miles (7 square kilometers) of ice area.6

The recent paper only looked at sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice sheets and does not take into account sea level rise contributions from the Greenland ice sheet (currently about 280 billion tonnes per year), which would more than double the Antarctic contribution.

For example, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet broke previous records in 2002, 2005, and 2007, and seasonal melting from 1996 to 2007 was above average compared with the 1973 - 2007 period.10, 11 The melting of the Greenland ice sheet contributed around 0.02 inch (0.6 millimeter) to global sea - level rise in 2005 — more than double the 1996 contribution.4 From 1993 to 2003 the average rate of sea - level rise increased to about 0.12 inches (3.1 millimeters) per year.12 That means that in 2005 Greenland could have contributed 19 percent of the average annual global sea level rise rate.