Sentences with phrase «of sea ice levels»

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There's no getting around the fact that the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the resulting sea level rise would be pretty devastating for humanity.

«If you're trying to detect change in something, you need long and continuous uninterrupted records of things like the sea ice or sea level rise or Greenland's ice sheet,» Shepherd said.

That half a degree is the difference between low - lying island states surviving, or Arctic ice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level risice remaining over the North Pole in summer, or increasing the risk of losing the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level risIce Sheet or Greenland ice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level risice sheet (either one of which implies an eight - metre sea level rise.)

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

The second cause of sea level increase is the melting of land ice — such as glaciers and ice sheets.

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Ssea levels around the world into the Amudsen SeaSea.

Sea level has been rising slowly and inexorably since the end of the last ice age, and the rate has not accelerated in a warming climate.

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

Colin... Your statement of «when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels» is speculation of a possibility, not a scientifically accepted specific hypothesis.

One is changed environmental conditions for a discrete subpopulation of the original population, such as when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels, cutting species into subgroups.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualIce Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

Understanding sea level change in relation to the mass balance of Greenland's and Antarctica's ice sheets is at the heart of the CReSIS mission.

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

«Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century,» she told a meeting of the UK's Royal Society.

In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.

But new analyses like this, which show previously undiscovered deep canyons, suggest that a good chunk of East Antarctica's bed lies below sea level, rendering the ice sheet less stable than previously thought.

The first of these pathways, marine ice sheet instability, has been studied for decades, but the second, marine ice cliff instability, has only recently been considered as an important contributor to future sea level change.

This gives confidence in the predictions of the current generation of ice - sheet models which are used to forecast future ice loss from Antarctica and resulting sea - level rise.»

GREENLAND lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one - sixth of global sea - level rise.

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

From disease to weather patterns, the meltdown of Arctic sea ice — close to record levels again this year — is changing the globe

Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.

«Ice loss from this part of West Antarctica is already making a significant contribution to sea - level rise — around 1 mm per decade, and is actually one of the largest uncertainties in global sea - level rise predictions.

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

Studying surging glaciers could also offer insights into grander - scale ice flows with global consequences: the movements of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which can change abruptly, altering the ice discharges that affect sea level.

As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

This global cooling led to an expansion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that caused global sea level to fall exposing many of the Maldives» reefs.

If the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lose enough ice to raise sea level a metre or more, though, it would take thousands of years for snowfall to build up the ice sheets again.

Never mind that this summer saw a record - breaking meltdown of Arctic sea ice, presaging rising sea levels and more extremely weird weather.

Evidence of past glacial advance and retreat is also more easily observed in the Dry Valleys, providing a window into the past behavior of the vast Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on global sea levels.

Other planned military or commercial satellites might be able to provide some information about sea - ice cover, but not with the level of detail and continuity that researchers desire.

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

Both of those effects actually add up to lower sea levels in the area right around the former ice sheet, Mitrovica said.

Such erosion can result from any number of factors, including the simple inundation of the land by rising sea levels resulting from the melting of the polar ice caps.

«That isn't even close,» Harvard University geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica told attendees yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science) in Washington, D.C. «Each ice sheet has its own pattern of sea level rise.»

Also, because of Quelccaya's high elevation (about 3.5 miles above sea level), only significant air pollution can reach the ice cap.

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

That could drastically increase the rate of ice release and the speed of sea - level rise.

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.

Melting of the ice shelves doesn't directly affect sea level rise, because they're already floating.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

Those 2007 IPCC estimates of 18 to 59 centimeters of sea - level rise by 2100 do not account for any of these ice shelf effects.

They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.