Sentences with phrase «negative glacier mass»
The study interval 1984 - 2000 began in a period of negative glacier mass balance, extending that dominated the 1975 - 1994 interval (Pelto, 1996; Krimmel, 1994).
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This years forecast issued May 1 is for negative glacier mass balance.
If PDO is positive and ENSO is negative glacier mass balance will be negative on South Cascade Glacier.
Hence the increasingly negative glacier mass balance record that you are familar with.
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Nearly every glacier has a negative mass balance.
Negative mass balances on tributary glaciers can lead to thinning of the glaciers and ice shelves.
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.
As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»
As predictors of glacier mass balance positive MEI values, El Nino, and warm phase PDO's favor negative balances, and cool phase PDO's and negative MEI values, La Nina, favor positive annual balances.
«The rest of the glaciers in the Himalayas are mostly melting, in that they have negative mass balance, here we found that glaciers aren't,» study researcher Julie Gardelle, of CNRS - Université Grenoble, France, told LiveScience.
The 2003 — 08 specific mass balance for our entire HKKH study region was − 0.21 ± 0.05 m yr − 1 water equivalent, significantly less negative than the estimated global average for glaciers and ice caps4, 10.
North Cascade glaciers annual balance has averaged -0.54 m / a of water equivalent from 1984 - 2006, a cumulative loss of over 12.4 m in glacier thickness or 20 - 40 % of their total volume since 1984 due to negative mass balances.
The trend in mass balance is becoming more negative which is fueling more glacier retreat and thinning note figure at right.