Sentences with phrase «retreat of»

Results showed that, between 2002 and 2007, an average of 13.6 meters (45 feet) of shoreline disappeared each year, compared to an average annual retreat of 6.8 meters (22 feet) between 1955 and 1979, and an annual loss of 8.7 meters (28.5 feet) between 1979 and 2002.

I first learned about this kind of work when I went to Switzerland in the early 1990s to report on the accelerating retreat of glaciers in the Alps and met several scientists studying centuries worth of paintings, drawings, and other artistic representations to clarify where the snouts of glaciers sat in centuries past.

-- A piece on the Lens blog at The Times assesses a photography exhibition at the Asia Society that vividly illustrates the ongoing retreat of the glaciers of the Himalayas.

Since 2000, the science has steadily pointed to the ever - growing summertime retreat of Arctic sea ice as an early indicator of human - driven warming.

This season's Arctic ice retreat ranks well behind the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007 and also last year's but remains below the average ice extent for the stretch since 1979, when satellites started monitoring Arctic conditions with some precision.

The retreat of the Arctic sea ice in recent decades is moving the egdge of the sea ice away from the areas of deep water formation and I would have thought that this would contribute to a weakening of amoc south of Greenland.

The observed acceleration, retreat of the grounding line, thinning of the lower section of the glacier and the observed elevation of the basal topography provide no indication that this is not a weak underbelly of WAIS.

You can make your own list, I am sure — the retreat of the Arctic ice last summer, Greenland melt, trends in Atlantic hurricanes over the past 20 years, etc..

If we may assume that the moving speed of a breaking up point of a glacier is a good indication for past temperatures, then have a look at the retreat of the largest Greenland glacier at Illulisat, West Greenland.

I've freshly canvassed more than a dozen sea - ice experts to get their latest views on whether the remarkable Arctic ice retreat of last summer will be matched this year.

Thus, Thompson's observation about the retreat of the Quelccaya ice cap would be interesting, but not that important, if it was the only data point we had.

The effect of last summer's wind anomaly and ice - albedo feedback may be found in a number of publications, including ours: Zhang, J., R.W. Lindsay, M. Steele, and A. Schweiger, What drove the dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

The researchers suggest that the retreat of this sea ice lid at the end of the last ice age uncorked this vintage CO2, resulting in an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Global warming has remitted in large - scale retreat of glaciers throughout the world.

The retreat of sea ice from the shores in summer to an unprecedented distance is fostering erosion of the shore and increasing radically the amount of swimming bears must do to maintain their accustomed life partly on and partly off dry land.

Given that the main factor seems to be the retreat of ice / snow cover, then it's disingenous to claim, as Michaels does, that one can «debunk» polar amplification by looking at Greenland.

«The storm definitely seems to have played a role in this year's unusually large retreat of the ice», Parkinson said.

There's also new analysis by a team from the Naval Postgraduate school, led by Wieslaw Maslowski, pointing to a complete late - summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice by the end of this decade and possibly 2016.

The salmon is gone, and with it goes the biological and cultural context that has held the region together since the retreat of the last ice sheet.

Yesterday, the Commerce Department and University of New Hampshire released the details of last summer's sonar survey of the sea floor off the Alaskan coast, which was able to push nearly 200 miles farther out toward the North Pole than it had in previous years because of the extraordinary ice retreat of 2007.

Ultimately, there is limited value in debating whether human - driven warming has caused the uncloaking of any particular Arctic island, the retreat of a snowfield atop any single mountain — even one as charismatic as Kilimanjaro — or the breakup of a particular ice shelf in Antarctica, or any other regional anomaly.

The retreat of many mountain glaciers in Asia is a serious issue with respect to water resources for tens of millions of people (many people, indeed).

I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

And of course the retreat of mangroves is hardly restricted to struggling tropical countries.

But on the bright side, he noted, in a joking reference to the meeting's Danish hosts, the retreat of the sheath of ice covering Greenland, which is Danish - controlled territory, «would increase your usable land by, I don't know, 10,000 percent.»

Neither from land ice, as the retreat of Greenland glaciers was lowest in the 1950 - 1975 period.

[Aug. 9, 8:04 p.m. Updated Joe Romm has predictably assailed my view of Arctic sea ice trends and their implications, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

It is pushing for new oil and gas drilling in polar bear habitat while biologists for Interior Department, prodded by legal action, recommended the bear be given threatened status under the species act because of the warming of the Arctic and summer retreat of sea ice.

Polar bears may be endangered by hunting, but they are not endangered by the retreat of the summer Arctic sea ice.

-- There is a discrepancy between the above map showing the retreat of the ice breakup points and the NASA map over 150 years (7 MB.

The aspect of the paper that has attracted the most attention is the claim that the retreat of the Kilimanjaro summit glaciers can be explained by precipitation reduction, without any compelling need to invoke a warming trend in local air temperature.

This is quite a shift from his chiding tone last November when the Indian government endorsed a report questioning the panel's 2007 conclusions on the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

As we've already seen, warming is by no means unimportant to the 20th century retreat of the Lewis glacier (Mt. Kenya) in E. Africa.

Further, the largest retreat of world glaciers was in the 1900 - 1940 period, when GHGs played a minor role.

To give another, more specific example, at a typical glacier on Mt. Baker, in Washington State, a summer temperature increase of 1 °C translates to a ~ 150 m increase in the altitude of the equilibrium line (the point where annual ice accumulation = annual loss), and a resulting ~ 2 km retreat of the glacier terminus.

If anything, it is the widespread retreat of the whole population of tropical glaciers that provides the most telling story.

A question that arose in subsequent online discussion was to what extent Oerlemans had relied on glaciers from tropical regions (answer: he didn't), and what the reasons are behind retreat of glaciers in these regions.

According to the NASA map, the retreat of the calving front in the period 1929 - 1953 (24 years) was as large as the retreat in the period 1953 - 2003 (50 years).

[this is useful, the pre-ice age era, ~ 2.5 — 3.6 million years ago, last time CO2 levels were as high as today] In response to Pliocene climate, ice sheet models consistently produce near - complete deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet (+7 m) and West Antarctic ice sheet (+4 m) and retreat of the marine margins of the Eastern Antarctic ice sheet (+3 m)(Lunt et al., 2008; Pollard and DeConto, 2009; Hill et al., 2010), altogether corresponding to a global mean sea level rise of up to 14 m.

A vivid animation showing the retreat of the Qori Kalis glacier flowing out of Quelccaya can be seen here.

As RC's Eric Steig commented, «I think the evidence that the current retreat of Antarctic glaciers is owing to anthropogenic global warming is weak.

The abrupt changes seen in the Greenland ice cores are due to sea - ice changes and the slower changes are the growth or retreat of continental ice sheets.

Historic photos and maps (from the 1800's to present) indicate a long term retreat of ice calving fronts on Greenland's glaciers.

There have been indications of widespread retreat of Himalayan glaciers, including Dasuopu in the subtropics, but a quantitative understanding of this region must await peer - reviewed analysis of the recently completed 46000 - glacier Chinese Glacier Inventory.

One of the most visually compelling examples of recent climate change is the retreat of glaciers in mountain regions.

The quote above, from the artist himself dated 1996, references the retreat of a body into a space that is foreign and yet familiar, where scale and perspective shift and yet the vocabulary of forms and images remains the same.

Spatial City brings together an international, multi-generational array of artists — with an emphasis on artists living in France — whose work contends with idealism, utopian thinking, and, in counterpoint, the cynicism that follows failed revolution and the retreat of optimism in the face of pragmatic reality.

His meticulous — if inadvertent — documentation of the retreat of remote glaciers has helped those studying the effects of climate change.

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Take the four - villa remote retreat of El Otro Lado in Portobelo, Panama that is not only attracting attention to a UNESCO World Heritage site, but serves as a launching point for exploring the region's rich Afro - Panamanian culture.