Warmer winters combined with an increase in snowfall during the last 30 years have limited the growth of
seasonal lake ice.
Not exact matches
Continuous annually layered strata provide the best kind of geological archive in which to search for a «golden spike» — these form on the floors of oxygen - starved seas and
lakes, in glacial
ice, and in corals and trees with
seasonal growth rings
Although that's really all that needs be said, I should add that jetfuel is trying to compare cumulative year - over-year land
ice mass loss in Antarctica with (cyclical)
seasonal river /
lake ice volume gain in Canada - and ignoring the inevitable melt - away of the latter.
As far as am I serious, I was comparing to the
seasonal N.A.
lake ice because 81 out of 26.45 million gigatonnes isn't an appreciative amount of loss.
The main components of the cryosphere are mountain glaciers and
ice caps, floating
ice shelves and continental
ice sheets,
seasonal snow cover on land, frozen ground, sea
ice and
lake and river
ice.