Sentences with phrase «reduced glacier mass»

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.

Not exact matches

However, the idea is simple, and I've talked about this much in many presentations this winter: Take the amount of ice you need to get rid of from Greenland to raise sea level 2 m in the next century, reduce it by your best estimate of the amount that would be removed by surface mass balance losses, and try to push the rest out of the aggregate cross-sectional area of Greenland's marine - based outlet glaciers.

Reducing the pollution will significantly reduce the rate at which glacier mass balance is lost in the Himalayas.

If a glacier has large homogenous areas this reduces the measurement density (Lemon Creek Glacier), if it has many small unique mass balance zones a higher measurement density is required (Columbia Glacier).

«The reduced mass from thinning makes this glacier particularly vulnerable.

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.

«Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu - Kush, Himalaya, Andes)...»