Sentences with phrase «overall glacier area»
If the combination of climate and ice dynamics determines that the glacier is advancing, the advance of the glacier terminus expands the overall glacier area.
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One might reasonably question how «anomalous» an area of 2,167 square miles actual is — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — given that the overall extent of the glaciers in the Karakoram range in the western Himalayas is 7,700 square miles.
The evidence for AGW covers a number of areas: increases in CO2 levels, overall warming, a rise in sea levels, falls in snow cover, receding glaciers, a decrease in Arctic ice, earlier springs, treelines moving towards the poles.
Overall in Greenland, the rate of area loss in marine - terminating glaciers during the 2010 melt season (419 km2) was 3.4 times that of the previous 8 years.