Sentences with phrase «reduce snow accumulations»
«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.»
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«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.
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When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).
This 20 - year variability is, however, significantly reduced in the northern (Camp Century and Agassiz Ice Cap) region, likely due to a larger distance from the Atlantic Ocean, and a much lower snow accumulation.
Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003 — 08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a − 1, reducing global sea - level rise by 0.23 mm a − 1.
People all over the world rely on melting snow to replenish their water supplies, and the earlier melt (and sometimes smaller accumulation) reduces the water availability for these people, threatening their way of life.
When firn is buried beneath subsequent snow accumulations, density increases as air spaces between the crystals are reduced by mechanical packing and plastic deformation until... interconnected air passages between grains are sealed off into individual air bubbles (Herron and Langway, 1980).