Sentences with phrase «recent melting»
"Recent melting" refers to the occurrence of ice or snow turning into liquid water in a relatively short period of time. Full definition
He is dismissing all the evidence of increased recent melting of glaciers or that warming oceans should also cause the sea level to rise faster more recently too.
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The most recent melted 15,000 years ago which makes the state's landscape young compared to most of the rest of the world.
Thanks to recent melting patterns, however, that's no longer the case.
The cores reveal that the ice layers became thicker and more frequent beginning in the 1990s, with recent melt levels that are unmatched since at least the year 1550 CE.
The cores reveal that the ice layers became thicker and more frequent beginning in the 1990s, with recent melt levels that are unmatched since at least the year 1550 CE.
Comparing recent melt seasons with historical records spanning more than 1,400 years shows summer Arctic sea ice in free fall.
In 2016 a new analysis suggested satellite measurements had underestimated recent melting of Greenland ice by some 40 %, Khan et al. (2016).
Meanwhile, up in the Arctic, distressing new information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, shows that Arctic sea ice extent has settled to its fourth - lowest level ever measured at the end of the most recent melt season.
Many market analysts and investors have called the recent melt - up in technology stocks as the equivalent of a Tech Bubble 2.0.
The Isua stromatolite fossils were exposed by the recent melting of a perennial snow patch.
The big «get» this coming summer, I guess, will be the new photos and «conclusions» about the melting summer Arctic ice above Alaska and Canada, if indeed it continues its recent melting back from previous summertime marks.
If rising CO2 has been the driver of recent melting, we would expect an increasingly faster rate of retreat, not slower!
So, unfortunately, we can't use the pre-satellite estimates for assessing how unusual the recent melting has (or hasn't) been.
The problem was that it called for an «unphysical» amount of recent melt (in direct conflict with other obs).
The recent melting may be the climax of an interglacial period and the resumption of the Ice Age.