Sentences with phrase «of ice breakups»

The researchers used underwater microphones aboard buoys to record the ambient noises of a variety of ice breakups at the Hans Glacier in Norway and synchronized the recordings with time - lapse photos of the glacier (as shown in the video above).

-- There is a discrepancy between the above map showing the retreat of the ice breakup points and the NASA map over 150 years (7 MB.

Not exact matches

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

The full effects of ice shelf breakup on glacier demise will not be known for some time.

Scientists still do not know what triggers the breakup of an ice shelf or when future ones will occur, so they struggle to estimate how quickly glaciers will dump their ice into the ocean and therefore how much sea level will rise.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

The region is getting stormier, which threatens settlements, aids ocean mixing that funnels nutrients to deeper waters, and could speed the breakup of sea ice.

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

The breakup and melting of floating ice has no direct effect on global sea levels.

«There are suggestions in the literature that accelerated breakup of ice shelves will lead to rise of sea level by several meters by the end of the century,» Godin said.

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming.»

Sea ice extent has dropped precipitously as has the amount of old ice, which is less prone to breakup.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

An additional new feature is the increasingly visible fast dynamic response of ice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice shelves, for example, the dramatic breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeIce Shelf in 2002, and the acceleration of tributary glaciers and ice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice streams, with possible consequences for the adjacent part of the ice sheeice sheets.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming» said Lenaerts.

Breakups can send people onto the couch with a bottle of wine and a pint of ice cream, staring out the window or at the TV, sobbing themselves into a puddle of complete despair.

Fortunately, only 6.5 % of women went the stereotypical route of gorging on ice cream and watching chick flicks to get over a breakup, while 1.0 % of men admitted to using promiscuous sex, random one night stands and drinking binges to deal with a bad breakup.

Emma Watson and Robert Pattinson reunited for the first time since Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire in 2005 while presenting together at the Golden When dealing with breakups, most people drown their feelings — in chocolate, ice cream, or The Notebook.

One major piece, featured as part of a trilogy of shows Yi mounted between 2013 and 2014 that dealt with a breakup that she described as a «metaphysically violent vivisection,» featured an ice crystal that slowly melted over the course of the exhibition.

While filming in the Arctic for his documentary, «Chasing Ice», filmmaker James Balog captured the breakup of the Ilulissat...

Breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abBreakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraIce Shelf triggered by chain reaction drainage of supraglacial lakes (pages 5872 — 5876) Alison F. Banwell, Douglas R. MacAyeal and Olga V. Sergienko Article first published online: 27 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002 / 2013GL057694 Key Points Larsen B Ice Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraIce Shelf rapidly broke ‐ up by chain ‐ reaction drainage of surface lakes Lake ‐ induced stress set fracture spacing small enough for capsize ‐ driven breakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abbreakup Lake interaction by flexural stress defines an ice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstraice ‐ shelf stability tipping point (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057694/abstract)

Reports of the breakup of Antarctic ice shelves and other signs of actual current warming in polar regions begin to affect public opinion.

The possibility of breakup increases as the ice shelf thins.

While the breakup and slipping of ice sheets is a small part of sea rise now, he wrote last year, it could easily accelerate under the heating from a «business as usual» path for emissions.

With this unofficial time, this year places 4th earliest for the breakup of ice in the Tanana river.

Ultimately, there is limited value in debating whether human - driven warming has caused the uncloaking of any particular Arctic island, the retreat of a snowfield atop any single mountain — even one as charismatic as Kilimanjaro — or the breakup of a particular ice shelf in Antarctica, or any other regional anomaly.

I taught a climate statistics class at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences in 2011 (I think) during spring semester and as a class team exercise we «forecast» the Nenana ice breakup date.

Despite this, if you display those images at 500 meter resolution, you can see where the ice in the North West Passage is a darker blue, which would indicate some level of breakup.

Throw in the possibility (weighted, perhaps) of ice sheet breakups in greenland and antarctica, and how do our «Scenarios A B and C» look for the FUTURE now?

«in Western Hudson Bay, the decline in population size, condition, and survival of young as a consequence of earlier breakup of the sea ice brought about by climate warming have all been well documented (Stirling et al., 1999; Gagnon and Gough, 2005; Regehr et al., 2005; I. Stirling and N.J. Lunn, unpub.»

When such events do occur (such as flooding in Bangladesh, ice shelf breakups in Antarctica) they occur in remote locations that are far from the concerns of average Americans, and making the link between these events and individual day to day concerns is very difficult to make.

Aug. 9, 8:30 a.m. Update Andreas Muenchow of the University of Delaware is much more cautious than Ohio State's Jason Box about attributing the ice breakup to recent warming.

The same is true for ice melting: All glaciers of Greenland are receding, but the breakup point of the largest tidal glacier (near Illulisat) moved faster inland in the 1930 - 1940 period than today.

I believe that what the phrase is trying to get at is either the acceleration relative to the pause in the 1950 - 1970 period, or the acceleration in accumulation of noticeable consequences — worldwide glacier melt, sea ice retreat, earlier onset of springtime, (possibly) increasingly intense hurricanes, Larsen - B breakup, melting of Greenland along the margins, etc..

Breakup of an ice shelf (Larsen) leads to a speedup of glacier movement: Rignot et al. (2004), Scambos et al. (2004)(who also note lubrication by percolating water, see following note).

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.

Small changes in global sea level or a rise in ocean temperatures could cause a breakup of the two buttressing ice shelves.

There has been discussion of the role of an August storm in 2012; the storm contributed to breakup of the sea ice and perhaps enhanced sea ice decay.

The main North West Passage ice will show strong evidence of breakup and melt by April 30th.

The breakup of these ice shelves is a concern, because that would essentially remove the stopper and greatly accelerate the rate at which glacier melt finds its way to the ocean.

We are now (27 March 2011) within the time frame of my March 02, 2011 predition for the breakup of the Nares Strait ice bridge.

In this case the thinning and resultant structural weaknesses preconditioned the ice to rapid breakup, which proceeded to lose only the preconditioned portion of the ice shelf.

«Even though we don't see immediate evidence of ice shelf breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expectice shelf breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expectIce Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expected.

This melange is so weak that a few cloudless days and / or a strong wind towards Baffin Bay will cause a rapid breakup of the ice bridge.

The tipping point was 1998, after which the trend has been later ice breakups, at a rate of about half of a day per year.

All of which indicates 2017 won't be an early sea ice breakup year for WHB polar bears.

A run of bad news from the climate scientists might convince a government that the breakup of the Greenland ice sheet was accelerating, and that Earth's low - lying areas were facing an imminent rise of 3 feet or more in sea level.

The Nenana Ice Classic has interested me, as it is a continuous record since 1917 of the breakup of ice in the Tanana River near Nenana, AlasIce Classic has interested me, as it is a continuous record since 1917 of the breakup of ice in the Tanana River near Nenana, Alasice in the Tanana River near Nenana, Alaska.