Sentences with phrase «of local glaciers»

Fluctuations of local glaciers in Greenland during latest Pleistocene and Holocene time.

Mean annual air temperature is around -19.8 °C, and the majority of the local glaciers are cold throughout [17].

Li Zhongqin, director of the local glacier monitoring station, said «lots of people came because they thought it would be their last chance to do so.»

Not exact matches

For example, the rise in immediate cost of transportation, in a context where its indirect effects on speeding the melting of the glaciers are recognized, will almost certainly favor local production of food.

Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Now a local Indian civil engineer has mastered the art of making «artificial glaciers» that deliver water when it's needed most — in the early spring, right after farmers sow their single crop of wheat, barley, or peas.

Join our local naturalist guide for a leisurely hike through Olympic National Park and discover its three distinct ecosystems: rugged glacier - capped mountains, wild Pacific coastline and the magnificent old - growth Hoh Rain Forest, one of the few temperate rainforests in the U.S.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

With so many instruments on the Yahtse, researchers have a unique opportunity to monitor changes along the length of the glacier and discover how, for example, local changes in ocean temperature and currents relate to movement further up the glacier.

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.

The local diversity and unique geologic history (covered by neither glaciers nor oceans for the past 225 million years, the Ozarks provided refuge for migrating species during the Ice Age) explain the richness of the lichens here: some 600 named species, along with 30 recently discovered ones awaiting their official designation.

Ramanathan, who also spoke at the meeting Monday, says that the study by Yasunari and colleagues included a more detailed, local model of an actual glacier.

Layers of ice in the upper reaches of glaciers provide a year - by - year chronicle of soot emitted by local industry and by the coal and wood burned to heat homes in the valleys nearby.

Hoffmann adds: «A nation - wide risk assessment of potentially dangerous glacial lakes would be of great interest to local communities in glacier watersheds.»

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

But unlike the lower glaciers, most of the high glaciers are located in very cold environments and require greater amounts of atmospheric warming before local temperatures rise enough to cause significant melting.

Indeed, within the Baltic Sea, the multitude of small Alaskan Glaciers actually now contributes more to local sea - level rise than the massive Greenland ice sheet.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

They used a combination of field observations and data from local weather stations to test a model of glacier change over the past 50 years.

- Greenland - With sub-zero shoots on glaciers and frozen rivers, travel with the filmmakers to Greenland to meet the locals and experience the magnificent landscapes captured for the powerful opening of the film (Blu - ray only)

Park guards view maps and photos of high - altitude glaciers — information that can be shared with local communities dealing with changing water levels.

Venture to the land of the grizzlies and glistening glaciers - your in - depth exploration of the Rocky Mountains begins in Stampede country, taking you through scenic icefields, breathtaking lake landscapes, and alpine villages before you embrace your inner Canadian and learn the art of playing the puck from a local pro.

Magical Huaraz program is a complete tour which contains elements of the region's main cultural and natural circuits, starting with the delightful city of Huaraz, journeying along the Callejón de Huaylas, visiting Chavín de Huántar, contemplating the snow - capped Mount Pastoruri and lagoons, crossing the White Cordillera, through the Tunnel of Cahuish, going on a hike on the glacier, observing the famous Phuyas de Raymondi which are naturally gaseous water pools, ancient paintings on rocks, and we'll have a chance to enjoy beautiful landscapes and thermal baths, appreciate local handicraft and taste the exquisite regional gastronomy.

The physical processes by which energy might be added into the glacier material include: (A) convection between the glacier surfaces and local surrounding atmosphere and water, (B) direct radiation onto the exposed surfaces of the material, (C) addition of material that is at a temperature higher than the melting temperature onto the top of the glacier (rain, say), (D) Sublimation of the ice directly into the atmosphere, and (E) conduction into the material from the contact areas between the glacier and surrounding solid material.

RE # 30 & the Haiti quake being strengthened by landslides / erosion (due to deluges and hurricanes), it made a tiny bit of sense to me, since I'd read something earlier about how glacier melt in Greenland may be causing or contributing to very minor, local quakes.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

And I would argue that the only valid physical parameters are those local to and characteristic of each individual glacier.

The aspect of the paper that has attracted the most attention is the claim that the retreat of the Kilimanjaro summit glaciers can be explained by precipitation reduction, without any compelling need to invoke a warming trend in local air temperature.

[Response: I couldn't find the specific post you refer to, but in any case the answer is that alpine glaciers cover a very small fraction of the globe, and their disappearance will have very little impact on local temperature.

Each of these is local to and characteristic of a single glacier of interest.

As President Obama embarks on the most ambitious presidential exploration of Alaska in U.S. history, he hopes to call attention to the threats facing that state's precious and majestic glaciers, attending a State Department - sponsored conference on glaciers and meeting with locals concerned about their melting.

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

The local government in Yunnan province is considering a tourist ban on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain where glaciers are melting rapidly as well, said Huang Chengde, head of the Guiyang Public Environment Education Centre, who has just returned from a trip to Yunnan.

Glaciers of the Washington Cascade and Olympic Mountains; their present activity and itsrelation to local climatic trends.

Isostatic rebound in response to glacier retreat (unloading), increase in local salinity (i.e., δ18Osw), have been attributed to increased volcanic activity at the onset of Bølling — Allerød, are associated with the interval of intense volcanic activity, hinting at a interaction between climate and volcanism - enhanced short - term melting of glaciers, possibly via albedo changes from particle fallout on glacier surfaces.

Mass - balance modelling of all glaciers individually is not practical because no detailed description exists for the great majority of them, and because local climate data are not available; even regional climate models do not have sufficient resolution, while downscaling methods can not generally be used because local climate measurements have not been made (see Section 10.7).

Oerlemans and Fortuin (1992) derived an empirical relationship between the mass balance sensitivity of a glacier to temperature change and the local average precipitation, which is the principal factor determining its mass turnover rate.

Gregory and Oerlemans (1998) applied local seasonal temperature changes over 1860 to 1990 calculated by the HadCM2 AOGCM forced by changing greenhouse gases and aerosols (HadCM2 GS in Table 9.1) to the glacier model of Zuo and Oerlemans.

They worked with satellite images and measurements of the glaciers along with local weather data to understand what happened over the last few decades.

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, which in many cases appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2000 years.

Within a couple of decades, numerous other glaciers are expected to follow suit, disrupting local hydrological patterns and agriculture.

Sort of like global warming: «generally» rising has local cooling (suggesting that, like glaciers, the LOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (likelocal cooling (suggesting that, like glaciers, the LOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (likeLOCAL situation, like cloudiness / albedo / ocean currents) is the significant factor, and not an equally distributed, universal force (like CO2)

The glacier remained relatively stable from 1960 to 2002, coinciding with cooler - than - average local summer temperatures through the mid - 1990s.3 After local summer temperatures began to rise, around 1995, Kangerdlugssuaq's speed more than doubled, from an average of 49 feet (15 meters) per day in 2001 to 131 feet (40 meters) per day in 2005.6

Fact is glaciers move as rivers do: though generally downhill in a given direction, locally they follow the contours of the local topography.

«This allows us to get a better picture of projected regional ice volume change and potential impacts on local water supplies, and changes in glacier size distribution,» Radic said.

PCIC's PRISM climatologies use observations of temperature and precipitation from thousands of stations in BC and integrate other sources of information, including digital elevation data, snow data, upper atmosphere climatologies, glacier inventories, and local and expert knowledge in order create a climatology of the province at a scale of 800 metres, for the period of 1971 — 2000.

To know what these high numbers mean for local changes on the world's coastlines, you need a framework that accounts for all the key drivers: among them not just Antarctica, but also Greenland, mountain glaciers, the expansion of the warming ocean, changes in winds and current, shifts in Earth's gravitational field, and land motion.

This strong degree of correlation indicates that regional climate patterns, not local microclimates, are the primary control of glacier annual balance in the North Cascades.

Outstanding Outfitters Wildland Adventures, which will whisk you off to the rainforest, glaciers, desert, or anywhere inbetween, is one of the most respected eco-travel outfitters, and this year won the Conde Nast Traveler's Green List award for its «commitment to preserving natural surroundings and contributing to local cultures.»

Some of the advancing glaciers are surge - type glaciers, which move forward more rapidly than average in a short period of time... likely due to unique and local conditions.