Sentences with phrase «reduce glacier melt»

The second plan proposed by German researchers is to create large - scale reflective sheets to block sunlight and reduce glacier melt.

Not exact matches

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

Together, these factors will reduce glacier growth as well as increase the area exposed to melt.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulations over the glaciers, but would also expose over 90 % of the current glaciered area to melt in the warmer months.»

On the other hand, this is a big maybe, soot and other pollution when it is in the air I am guessing could reduce the strength of sunlight that reaches the glacier and this possibly could reduce the melting.

Second, as the glaciers melt their height reduces bringing a greater proportion of the glacier below the snow line.

If climate changes increase the snow deposition rate on the plateau there, the rate of sea level rise from melting glaciers elsewhere would be reduced.

The implications for me is to reduce fossil fuel burning; whether it melts the glaciers through its soot or through GW is a secondary issue, though as proof of warming it has implications for many other GW harms.

That each of the three glaciers has a reduced velocity in 2006 and 2007 despite some exceptional melt conditions in 2007 further suggests that meltwater is not the dominant driver of the acceleration of the main outlet glaciers.

The story goes — warmer temperatures, more surface melting, more meltwater draining through moulins to glacier base, lubricating glacier bed, reducing friction, increasing velocity, and finally raising sea level.

The Associated Press has put out an interesting interactive mapof climate change data, including the emission trends from countries in the northern hemisphere, graphs of the various indicators of global warming such as glacier melts and global temperatures, and the pledges that different countries have made when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

However, as Timothy explained in # 121, in addition to the direct sea level rise that occurs when ice shelves melt, there is a much larger secondary effect, in that ice shelves act as a brake, greatly reducing the rate of flow of the glaciers behind them from the land to the sea; and when ice shelves melt, the rate of glacier flow increases quite rapidly.

ICESat data indicated that basal melting was also thinning floating ice shelves, reducing their ability to buttress the glaciers feeding them.

Eventually the resulting decline in glacier extent reduces the area available for melting causing a decrease in glacier runoff.

A continuing trend in glacier loss will seriously decrease the water reserves stored as ice, reducing melt season runoff.

This loss in melt extent is reducing glacier runoff and summer alpine streamflow.

During the early portion of the melt season May and June, glaciers store meltwater in their thick snow and firnpack, thus reducing the magnitude of high spring flows.

This circumpolar deep water, which is relatively warm and salty compared to other parts of the Southern Ocean, has warmed and shoaled in recent decades, and can melt ice at the base of glaciers which reduces friction and allows them to flow more freely.

While glaciers melt under the pressure of greenhouse gas emissions, Kearney is determined to reduce her part in climate change by offsetting all Olympic training travel with NativeEnergy.

In the case of the 100 kyr ice age cycles, that forcing is high northern latitude summer insolation driven by predictable changes in Earth's orbital and rotational parameters — aka, Milankovitch theory — which has the intial effect of melting glaciers, thereby reducing albedo at those latitudes.

Students watch glaciers melt, dive into the world's coral reefs, and explore how bike share programs reduce carbon emissions — all from their personal tablets.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulation over the glaciers, but would also expose 90 % of the current glacier area to melt in the warmer months,» he says.

Dr Marinoni estimates that the combined effect of this crud could reduce the glaciers» ability to reflect light by 2 - 5 % and increase the amount of melting by 12 - 34 %.»

According to Farjana Sikandar Birajdar, lead author of the study, the melting of glaciers would reduce the ice mass balance even as it resulted in formation of new lakes with loose moraine.

Predicted increases in temperature will drive increased shrinkage of glaciers, leading to initial increases in melt water produced, followed by subsequent declines with reduced glacier mass.

The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world's glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland — regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions.

Towards the bottom of the range the temperature was cold enough for glaciers to increase in size and at the top was warm enough for glaciers to be reduced by melting.

At 600ppm, global average temperature rise could be in the range of 3 - 4Â °C — which means greater sea level rise than predicted, glaciers melting and constraining water supply throughout large areas of Asia, agriculture being severely stressed in many places, greater storm intensity, reduced biodiversity, the end of coral reefs.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.

He is the climate change chief whose research body produced a report warning that the glaciers in the Himalayas might melt by 2035 and earned a Nobel Prize for his work — so you might expect Dr Rajendra Pachauri to be doing everything he can to reduce his own carbon footprint.