Sentences with phrase «other glacier»

There was no significant change in the area of eight other glacier lakes which were situated at a higher altitude and not created by melting.

Both Pine Island and Thwaites — along with the dozens of other glacier basins included in the new study — will benefit from continued monitoring to determine whether the trends observed now hold true in the future.

Both Pine Island and Thwaites — along with the dozens of other glacier basins included in the new study — will benefit from continued monitoring to determine whether the trends observed now hold true in the future.

«The big question,» he says, «is how to apply this to other glaciers and make it relevant on a global scale.»

Other glaciers are protected by shallow sills, or raised seafloor ledges.

Since these chemicals would have been spread around the globe before they settled into the ice, many other glaciers are probably contaminated too.

More than 80 % of the ice on Africa's highest peak has melted since the early 20th century, joining other glaciers that are ebbing from the world's tropical mountains at an accelerating rate.

Another alternative has been suggested by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies west Antarctica's Whillans Ice Sheet, among other glaciers.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

Byrd Glacier is also moving faster than average, but unlike many other glaciers, has been sounded in the past.

«Other glaciers» includes all other land - ice sources.

On our current course, other glaciers around Antarctica will be similarly vulnerable.

«There's a whole lot more to understand if we're going to use this mechanism to predict how far Thwaites glacier and the other glaciers are going to retreat,» he says.

Satellites have provided grounding lines observations of Pine Island Thwaites glaciers (and other glaciers for that matter) since getting direct observations under the ice is basically a non-starter.

Now that the work has been done to combine these airborne measurements, Schroeder said he plans to expand this type analysis to other glaciers, a move that could improve scientists» understanding of the hidden ways climate change is affecting ice.

Other glaciers have thinned, accelerated and receded as a result of increased melting (see Recent Change)[19, 20].

You'll need a helicopter to reach the top of Tasman Glacier or one of the other glaciers in the park, but the icy scenery makes a great backdrop for photos.

We neglect the other glaciers and ice caps at our peril.

Helheim and all of the other glaciers an even smaller flow contribution.

... Khan said understanding the underlying processes that lead to calving are much more important in determining the fate of glaciers around Greenland, but particularly Zachariae and other glaciers in the northeast.

Thus, even if it is rigorously demonstrated that for a given glacier a causal connection between the «global average» temperature and the decrease in the mass of a glacier exists, extrapolation to other glaciers is not recommended.

Examination of the acceleration of other glaciers such as the Petermann Glacier indicate a much smaller acceleration than that observed on three glaciers we have focused, and indeed it is in the summer and of a magnitude that the Zwally effect could explain (Rignot, 2005).

Other glaciers have slowed and, overall — as I've written here recently — new studies show no fresh signs of imminent destabilization of the ice.]

With regard to sea stand rise with 3C global warming, I opine that 15 meters, plus whatever contribution from the melting of the Patagonia ice caps, Tibetan and other glaciers, is it.

The two other glaciers — Pope and Kohler — are also retreating, albeit at a much slower rate, probably because of the presence of a bedrock that slopes upward toward the interior.

These glaciers have gradually slowed in the following years, but calving and mass loss from other glaciers on the southeastern Greenland coast and the western coast continues.

As far as sea levels are concerned, changes in the Pine Island Glacier and other West Antarctic glaciers are far more important than shifts among the continent's other glaciers, such as East Antarctica's Mertz Glacier — despite Mertz's much publicized release of a Luxembourg - size iceberg in early 2010.

``... Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers?

One example is a plan to look at the upper portions of Smith Glacier in West Antarctica, which is thinning faster than any other glaciers in the region.

That's slow for Columbia, but fast compared to other glaciers.

By studying this collapse carefully, we should be able to identify other glaciers at risk — and hopefully provide life - saving warnings.

An August 2008 Geophysical Research Letters study that examined the impact of the melting Himalayan Naimona «nyi glacier concluded, «If Naimona «nyi is characteristic of other glaciers in the region, alpine glacier meltwater surpluses are likely to shrink much faster than currently predicted with substantial consequences for approximately half a billion people.»

All other glaciers in the world combined contain about 0.5 meters worth.

That's because ice melting in Greenland and other glaciers is offset by increasing snow pack in Antarctica (melting sea ice has no effect on ocean levels, since the ice floats, for the same reason that ice melting in your glass of water will not cause the glass to overflow).

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

«Other glaciers in the same range farther north have also been surging recently, which is an early warning sign.

The Hindu: «The Gangotri glacier is retreating like other glaciers in the Himalayas and its volume and size are shrinking as well,» a report, titled «Estimation of retreat rate of Gangotri glacier using rapid static and kinematic GPS survey», by scientists from the Almora - based G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development has stated.

Other glaciers have fared even worse Whitechuck Glacier in particular has suffered, with the north half of the glacier completely melting away (see Death of a glacier).

So, you know, we can not possibly assume if all the other glaciers are melting, that for some reason we are insulated from those influences.

Actual bulk density, measured annually on South Cascade Glacier, and from 1993 - 1995 on other glaciers, support this assumption.

Other glaciers on the South Island studied include Ivory Glacier since 1968, while on the North Island, glacier retreat and mass balance research has been conducted on the glaciers on Mount Ruapehu since 1955.

R.K.P: Our glaciers are under the same influences, the same temperature changes, as other glaciers in the world.

A second study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reports the widespread retreat of Thwaites and other glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and says the retreat can't help but continue.

These estimates resulted from studies of air bubbles recovered in ice cores from deep within Antarctica, Greenland and other glaciers, as well as chemical analyses of coral samples from beneath the sea.

I await the explanation of why the other glaciers of the world, unaware that they don't need to melt because glacier retreat in the Himalayas is due to local factors, nevertheless also melt.

«Glaciers of the tropical Andes react strongly and more rapidly than other glaciers on Earth to any changes in climate conditions,» he said.

Not exact matches

The surrender of the whole universe to the physical sciences, represented by A. J. Ayer in philosophy (and by others in medicine and psychology) was a loud, daring little ice floe that tried to pull the glacier with it, failed, and fell into the sea.

(Two other fringes of the glacier at present shall meet a similar fate, both trying to pull in the opposite direction of Ayer and company.

His session allowed him to talk about how human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and causing other impacts.

Greenland is melting rapidly, but some glaciers are disappearing faster than others.