Sentences with phrase «rapid glacier recession»
In the Landsat image of Prince Gustav Ice Shelf above, you can see the rapid glacier recession from 1988 to 2009.
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Grounding line recession here could be irreversible, leading to rapid glacier thinning and recession, and sea level rise — see Marine Ice Sheet Instability.
In Patagonia, analysis of glacier area and length changes shows that recession is widespread (90.2 % have retreated since 1870), is more rapid in smaller land - terminating glaciers, and that rates of recession are accelerating.
The impacts of this recent regional rapid warming around the Antarctic Peninsula have been dramatic, with the collapse of ice shelves [14], and with 87 % of glaciers in recession [15].
A (2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities... are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)... and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.