Sentences with phrase «retreating at an increasing rate»
GRENOBLE, France, Jan. 22 (UPI)-- Glaciers in South America's Andes have been retreating at an increasing rate, which could affect the region's water supply in the near future, scientists say.
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«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.
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«Since temperature maxima have been increasing at a greater rate, the thinning of ice and retreat of glacial extent has taken place simultaneously at an alarming rate.
We find that following an early Holocene advance just prior to 8 ka, Jakobshavn Isbræ retreated rapidly at a rate of ∼ 100 m yr − 1, likely in response to increasing regional and local temperatures.
Along Alaska's northwestern coast, increased coastal erosion is causing some shorelines to retreat at rates averaging tens of feet per year.
The ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen relatively fast - moving glaciers that have recently become thinner, significantly increased their rates of retreat, and broken up at the ocean end (the terminus).
The increases in temperature is causing the retreat of the glaciers to increase at a rate that is effecting the streamflow and runoff in the area.
The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.