Sentences with phrase «report glacier mass»
Both have been the key to maintaining the extensive annual fieldwork program that is required to measured and report glacier mass balance.
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Himalayan glaciers are beating a rapid retreat in the face of global warming, according to a flurry of recent reports by BBC and other mass media.
The earlier study reported that the region was losing three times this amount of ice, based on measurements of glacier thinning and mass loss determined from other satellite measurements.
«The observed changes in sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, in the mass of the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic ice caps and glaciers over the past 10 years are dramatic and represent an obvious departure from long - term patterns,» says the report.
What the report says about Alaskan glaciers and climate change: The collective ice mass of all Arctic glaciers has decreased every year since 1984, with significant losses in Alaska.
Based on satellite date the French team reports that glaciers in this region are actually putting on mass slightly, BBC News reports:
Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.