Sentences with phrase «small glaciers at»

The melting is most pronounced for small glaciers at altitudes below 17,000 feet, he said, which have lost an average of 4.4 feet of ice thickness per year.

Not exact matches

The team looked at how meltwater from two small mountain glaciers flowed through the system and influenced the mountain streams, rivers and groundwater all year long.

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

They found greater amounts of phosphorus in the waters of the Leverett Glacier than had been detected at previous study sites, which have looked mostly at smaller glaciers.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

Certainly there is evidence that some glaciers were as small or smaller than they are today at some locations, around 1000 years ago.

The most obvious example of this is the case of calving glaciers where their gross behaviour may relate more to water depth at the calving front than small - scale climate variations.

A small, frozen lake sits at the left - hand terminus of the glacier.

The most obvious example of this is the case of calving glaciers where their gross behaviour may relate more to water depth at the calving front than small - scale climate variations.

The number of events detected at each outlet glacier using the global seismic network is relatively small, and it is therefore difficult to draw robust conclusions about behavior at any single glacier.

Glaciers of several mountain regions in the NH retreated in response to orbitally forced regional warmth between 11,000 and 5000 years ago, and were smaller than at the end of the 20th century (or even absent) at times prior to 5000 years ago.

For instance the above mentioned small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation, and the growth of favourably situated plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure (Brown and Escombe, 1905): In any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely.

Which is part of the reason they come out with stupid comments like the end of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, but on second thought, maybe we meant 2350... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IPCC-retracts-2035-alarm-on-Himalayan-glacier-melt/articleshow/5482397.cms Releasing this much carbon is not a good thing, but when you look at the larger picture, our increasing carbon in the atmosphere from 0.032 % to 0.039 % is small beer compared to deforestation and our increasing global population.

Kelly and Lowell (2009) say that «subsequent to late - glacial or early Holocene time, most local glaciers were smaller than at present or may have disappeared completely during the Holocene Thermal Maximum,»

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

The belief is that warm ocean currents are rapidly melting this glacier, because it lifted off this smaller ridge in the 1970s and now moves 4x faster than Thwaites at 4 km per year.

Silvrettagletscher is a small temperate mountain glacier located in the north - eastern part of Switzerland at the border to Austria.

That may seem small at first, but over time, especially when combined with other sources of sea level rise such as melting Greenland glaciers and the expansion of seawater as ocean temperatures increase, it adds up.

World Crunch: Melting glaciers in the Himalayas put the small Kingdom of Bhutan at risk.

Fluctuations in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance as they impact directly on global sea levels: since 1901, ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland, alongside the melting of small glaciers and ice caps and thermal expansion of the oceans, have caused global sea levels to rise at an average rate of 1.7 mm / yr.

I mean if after an Ice Age you can have large and thick glaciers receding at that rate of natural causes why is it so surprising that smaller glaciers in a warmer climate are receding.

At first, the WDC consisted of a library, a glacier photo collection, and a small staff.

A small, frozen lake sits at the left - hand terminus of the glacier.

At the same time, Greenland's glaciers were also smaller, though they persisted because of snowfall generated from the ocean.