Sentences with phrase «on glacier volume»

Satellite remote sensing has revolutionized the ability to monitor the surface of West Antarctica in recent decades, providing unprecedented streams of data on glacier volume and velocity.

Not exact matches

This particular volume on mummified corpses deals with the science of glaciers as well as stories of scientists and explorers who have traveled the glaciers — and often discovered bodies from the past.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

Glaciers change the strength of the skin rather than the contained volume, but the mechanical effect on the strength of the structure is the same How thick is the skin of a rocket booster held rigid by pressure of the fuel inside?

The IPCC projections of sea level rise are based largely on the slow, steady and inexorable thermal expansion of the oceans (as water heats, its volume increases) with some additional contributions from the melting of mountain glaciers (almost all of which are expected to be gone by mid century).

Since 1850 the glaciers of the European Alps have lost about 30 to 40 % of their surface area and about half of their volume... glaciers in the New Zealand Southern Alps have lost 25 % of their area over the last 100 years... Glaciers on Mt. Kenyan and Kilimanjaro have lost over 60 % of their area in the last century...» — Union of Concerned Scientists web siglaciers of the European Alps have lost about 30 to 40 % of their surface area and about half of their volume... glaciers in the New Zealand Southern Alps have lost 25 % of their area over the last 100 years... Glaciers on Mt. Kenyan and Kilimanjaro have lost over 60 % of their area in the last century...» — Union of Concerned Scientists web siglaciers in the New Zealand Southern Alps have lost 25 % of their area over the last 100 years... Glaciers on Mt. Kenyan and Kilimanjaro have lost over 60 % of their area in the last century...» — Union of Concerned Scientists web siGlaciers on Mt. Kenyan and Kilimanjaro have lost over 60 % of their area in the last century...» — Union of Concerned Scientists web site, 2016

«(F) the cryosphere, including effects on ice sheet mass balance, mountain glacier mass balance, and sea - ice extent and volume;

Carr, J. (2014) Recent retreat of major outlet glaciers on Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic, influenced by fjord geometry and sea - ice conditions Journal of Glaciology, Volume 60, pp. 155 - 170 (16)

To notice something is going on with the world's ice sheets, you could measure melting water runoff, glacier retreat or use satellites and GPS to measure ice volume decline.

Though the Tibetan earthquake was going to happen at some time, it is possible that changes in ice loading on Himalayan glaciers, changes in water volume outflows in the annual Asian monsoon, and sea level rise adding pressure to the geological plates below coastlines — especially in low - lying Bangladesh — had an impact.

«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.

On a more reassuring note, Huss and Farinotti (2012) have estimated the volume of the planet's glaciers at roughly1.7 E14 m3.

Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in global temperatures, sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes, sea ice extent will decrease.

«Our new method not only provides an estimate of the ice volume, but allows calculating local ice thickness on a fine grid for each of the 200,000 glaciers worldwide,» he said.

Himalayan glaciers: In a regional chapter on Asia in Volume 2, written by authors from the region, it was erroneously stated that 80 % of Himalayan glacier area would very likely be gone by 2035.