Sentences with phrase «recent melting back»
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.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
For millennia, Greenland's ice sheet reflected sunlight back into space, but satellite measurements in recent years suggest the bright surface is darkening, causing solar heat to be absorbed and surface melting to accelerate.
Recent institutional solo exhibitions include, «Cloud metal cities», at Kunsthalle São Paulo; «One Torino,» with Santo Tolone and Naufus Ramírez - Figueroa, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2013); «If I don't taste it will melt on your finger», public commission for the city of Turin,» Luci d'Artista», (2013); «Der Tanz,» Atelier Amden, Amden (2013); «Afer the Monument Comes the People,» Back wall installation, Kunsthalle Basel (2012); «I wish Blue could be Water,» CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2012); and «Les Figures Autonomes,» Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2012).
Perhaps you have some credible evidence to back up the claim that similar melts happened during the recent past, could you post links to such research to show that these claims are not egregious?
Well, it nearly * tripled * from mid February to late March, yet never reached above about 65 % of average at any point this season (and recent record warmth has already triggered melting; the snowpack is already back down to 55 % of average for the date).
The vulnerability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or WAIS, has been appreciated for a long time; all the way back in 1968, an eccentric Ohio State glaciologist named John Mercer observed that the WAIS was peculiarly unstable, and that it may have melted away in the geologically recent past.
The earlier discussion was focussed on a particularly interesting phenomenon — why, when the recent few years seem to show a global fall in temperatures, have there been two exceptionally large summer melt - backs in the Arctic?