Sentences with phrase «not calving»

The alpine glaciers discussed here are not calving, nor do they have superimposed ice, two factors that complicate measurement.

Alaska's glaciers contributed to one third of the world's ice sheet losses from 2005 to 2010, but a new study suggests melting, not calving as shown here, contributed to the most loss.

No one knows why their schedule changed, just as no one can explain why they are not calving as much as they should, after ten good years.

Not exact matches

Some cosmologists think time couldn't exist until gravity calved off from the other 3 forces.

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

I thought it was mostly related to the fact that my husband was not able to take full time off of work for a little while (cattle farmers just don't have that luxury) to help us get adjusted at home, but it went beyond that and he was around as much as he could be at that time considering he was in the middle of calving season.

If the seams irritate your skin, you won't be able to use your large calve compression socks regularly.

This isn't the first time ice sheets have calved from the Greenland mainland, but it's one of the largest breaks.

Their article asserts that a calving event is not necessarily due to changes in environmental conditions and may simply reflect the natural growth and decay cycle of an ice shelf.

The calving is not directly linked to climate change, experts say; bergs break away naturally.

Though this iceberg may be one of the biggest ever calved from Jakobshavn, the Greenland glacier is not unique in melting down.

Sensors in the most seismically active U.S. state are providing insights into calving, a process that alone is not an indicator that a glacier is retreating

Larsen C may follow a similar pattern, he says, although it's not clear how soon collapse might follow the imminent calving event.

«We find that iceberg calving is not the dominant process of ice removal.

Some of the variables controlling the models are not all that well known,» he adds, including forces such as winds, ocean circulation, and how icebergs calve.

Current climate models do not take into account glacial flow and therefore underestimate the impact of glacial melt and the calving of ice flows, the researchers argue in a paper detailing the findings in today's Science.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study by UC Irvine and others has found.

Yesterday, as news of the calving spread, many researchers were careful to note that they were not chalking it up to global warming.

Post added that, as his observations have continued, the data have revealed an increasingly earlier start to the plant growing season, a change that has not been matched by correspondingly earlier calving by caribou in the area.

«We don't know either way, we just know calving is a natural process, but that this is going to put the shelf into its most retreated form that we've observed,» he said.

At those times, ship traffic in SMAs around major ports and feeding, calving and nursing grounds must not travel faster than 18.5 kilometers per hour.

Climate signals are not clear enough to attribute the event to rising levels of carbon dioxide, but human activity may have contributed to its calving nonetheless.

That's because the IPCC models only take into account temperature changes at the surface of glaciers, but not the rapid melting that occurs when glaciers calve and break up into the ocean, Rignot said.

The findings also show that the loss of ice from calving has remained more or less constant through the 20th century, says Dr Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute who wasn't involved in the study.

The ice shelf is in the midst of a natural process of calving a large iceberg, which it hasn't done since 2001.

Kevin, the real reason that sea ice volume will likely not reach zero any time soon is that calving from Greenland and from the Canadian archipelago will continue and will likely increase.

I have plenty of room in the calve area but don't know that others would if they tend to require wide - calf boots.

Unless it says wide calve or has a stretch panel in back it probably won't make a difference in that area

Isn't it he worst when you find some boots you are in love with, but the calve openings are too small?

Although the Aussie does not have hip displasia, it can be affected by a similar condition called Legg - Calve Perthes disease (aseptic necrosis).

- Use multi-species stocking (i.e., sheep and cattle together)- Protect livestock in predator proof enclosures, especially at night - Utilize guard dogs, donkeys, or llamas - Confine ewes & cows during lambing / calving & at night - Provide rabbit wire covered enclosures with fencing buried below ground; rabbit cages are not recommended as they may be attacked through the cage or die of shock as they frantically seek cover.

But there's no reason to calve off large portions of Prop B in order to have adequate enforcement (So Wayne isn't willing to give up anything to get what actually is the single biggest win out of the whole conversation, better enforcement).

You can not stay closer to the beautiful beach of Point Ann where Southern Right Whales come to calve during their winter migration.

Freshwater spikes requires extenisve sustained calving which the ice sheet is not capable of.

So a 3-fold increase in output glacier velocity does not count as «extensive sustained calving»?

I hadn't thought of glaciers calving almost all the way around Antarctica.

During the first 10 days of the calving time the females did not leave their young and not even move to the nearby water places for drinking.

This flow of ice, fed by the continuous formation of new ice on land and culminating in the breakup of the shelves on the outer fringe and the calving of icebergs, is not new.

Since 1998, Earthjustice has gone to court three times to protect this region from oil and gas leasing and its harmful effects on sensitive areas, including calving and insect - relief habitats for caribou, molting and nesting areas for various birds, and subsistence hunting and fishing grounds for local people.

The measurements are some distance from the calving front and may not have resulted in warming under the floating section.

That blog ignored this rather important tidbit of information, probably to mislead people, or maybe they just didn't read the DMI page through, and don't know about the importance of calving in the budget due to their limited knowledge levels.

Its fluctuations are mainly driven by climatic factors and must not be subject to major other influences such as avalanches, calving or surge dynamics, heavy debris cover, artificial snow production or ablation protection.

The past is a boring old sepia photo in the bottom of a drawer and can't possibly have equivalency with a fresh video backed by mock - medieval music of steam coming out of a power station, or vivid colour spread in National Geo showing a flooded village or calving glacier.

Mass balance transfer to the calving front is a slow process with a large lag time (centuries) and is not capable of playing a meaningful role in the recent relatively large and sudden glacier accelerations (Pfeffer, 2007).

Also, the calving of glacial ice from landborn sources is not evidence of less icepack.

The ice shelf is in the midst of a natural process of calving a large iceberg, which it hasn't done since 2001.

More often, however, as with Gotley and its 11 neighbours, the icebergs break off as soon as the ice reaches sea level, so the calving front doesn't change much.

-LSB-...] The importance of the Petermann Glacier calving to climate science is not so much that it happened, but that it was predicted to happen.

Hasn't glacier calving been happening for eons?

If surface is specified (specific surface mass balance, etc.) then ice flow contributions are not considered; otherwise, mass balance includes contributions from ice flow and iceberg calving.