Sentences with phrase «shrinking cryosphere»
Again one must look at mirror causations, the biggest one is the shrinking Cryosphere, This heat wave is the reflection of sea ice volume disappearance.
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Again one must look at mirror causations, the biggest one is the shrinking Cryosphere, This heat wave is the reflection of sea ice volume disappearance.
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A new study published in The Cryosphere, an European Geosciences Union journal, has found that Bolivian glaciers shrunk by 43 % between 1986 and 2014, and will continue to diminish if temperatures in the region continue to increase.
Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.
«The Cryosphere and Climate Change: Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea - Ice Cover.»
It might seem logical to expect that the cryosphere overall would shrink in a warming climate or expand in a cooling climate.
In a warming climate, it is anticipated that the cryosphere would shrink, the Earth's overall albedo would decrease and more solar energy would be absorbed to warm the Earth still further.