Sentences with phrase «smaller glaciers on»

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Most people love to travel, but they might think twice before landing a small aircraft on glaciers or dirt airstrips.

The risk level had been raised to red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, on Saturday after authorities detected signs of a small eruption beneath a glacier near the Bardarbunga volcano in central Iceland.

It wasn't until around 34 million years ago that the first small glaciers formed on the tops of Antarctica's mountains.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

Amos suggests that obstacles — such as the sea, glaciers, or mountains — on the route from Africa to the Middle East, across the Himalayas and over the Bering Strait, held many migrants back, so that a much smaller group moved on, producing offspring to inhabit new parts of the globe.

If retreating glaciers can have an impact (small) on vulcanism / seismic activity, then this might relate to climate change, if not to «GW.»

On James Ross Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula, most of the small outlet glaciers are polythermal, with smaller niche glaciers being cold - based.

The figures opposite and above show that latitude, terminal environment (calving or ending on land) and size exert the strongest controls on glacier shrinkage, with the more northerly, land - terminating, smaller (less than 5 km2) glaciers shrinking fastest.

Orlowski's documentary profiles famed environmental photographer James Balog who, together with a small and dedicated team, has sought to capture on film the retreat of Earth's glaciers using an army of time - lapse cameras positioned across the globe — from Alaska and Glacier National Park in Montana to Iceland and Greenland.

Serve small portions to children explaining that the blue is the icy center of a glacier (a mass of ice formed by compacted snow) and the white on top is snow with silt (fine bits of sand and clay) in it.

I have to wait briefly while another of Land Rover's Scots clears a small iceberg from the floe, then it's down the steep, icy bank and into water that was made on a glacier.

What's more, on smaller vessels, you can cruise to Alaska's inside passage to spot amazing wildlife and dramatic glaciers.

The glacier I am familiar with on Mt. Baker is quite small, and the response time is around 10 years.

[Response: I couldn't find the specific post you refer to, but in any case the answer is that alpine glaciers cover a very small fraction of the globe, and their disappearance will have very little impact on local temperature.

And for 10 days, I was able to share this intimacy: I depended on the wood collected from these trees, the water that was siphoned from melting glaciers above me, the cabbage and potatoes grown in small family gardens, and the rice and lentils carried upon the backs of my Tamang hosts.

Examination of the acceleration of other glaciers such as the Petermann Glacier indicate a much smaller acceleration than that observed on three glaciers we have focused, and indeed it is in the summer and of a magnitude that the Zwally effect could explain (Rignot, 2005).

My hunch is the few large glaciers draw from the central ice mass through «gateways» and the many smaller glaciers instead form mostly from snowfall on the outside of the ring of mountains around the icecap.

One idea suggested has been to associate the social science studies with the products and assessments of the physical sciences research (e.g., having an area like sea level rise extend from issues pertaining to glaciers to issues concerning dislocation of people on coastlines), so social sciences becomes a small part of all physical science programs.

If retreating glaciers can have an impact (small) on vulcanism / seismic activity, then this might relate to climate change, if not to «GW.»

We've seen this in glaciers after the loss of the Larsen A and B ice shelves (relatively small shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula), and we've seen a similar effect in Greenland, where the floating end of the glacier, and the fjord choked with calved bergs, could apparently perform a similar braking function, now lost for several rapidly - retreating glaciers.

To those who still doubt Global Warming: We do know that the Earth is getting substantially warming on the whole, and the glaciers are getting smaller.

Larsen B glaciers are too small to significantly affect sea level, but the processes that acted on this area could play out on other, bigger ice shelves.

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.

The heavily crevassed ice on this small Greenland outlet glacier cascades down to the fjord water (bottom right), which is filled with icebergs and small bits of ice.

Land ice includes any form of ice that lasts longer than a year on land, such as mountain glaciers, ice sheets, ice caps and ice fields (both similar to but smaller than an ice sheet), and frozen ground or permafrost.

While worries about rising sea levels are focused on the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, the loss of small mountain glaciers comes with its own consequences.

I'll quote myself as a reply: «temperature increases from X to X +1 and the glaciers retreat by Y. Next temperature increase from X +1 to X +2 results in a retreat smaller then Y and so on.»

E.g. temperature increases from X to X +1 and the glaciers retreat by Y. Next temperature increase from X +1 to X +2 results in a retreat smaller then Y and so on.

The Leeds study casts doubt on that interpretation, because the degree of glacier speedup is far too small.

Since many of these glaciers sit on below sea level beds that slope downward toward the interior of Antarctica, a small amount of initial melt sets off an inland flood of these warmer waters that then produces a cascade of melt.

Re your last comment, I think the paper was focused entirely on the three ice sheets, and didn't purport to draw any conclusions about the small glaciers or the overall melt / SLR budget.

As we approach 2030, most of these glaciers will be «small insignificant lumps of ice on the landscape,» Fagre said.

As the larger glaciers shrink and the smaller ones disappear, the ice melt that sustains rivers, and the irrigation systems dependent on them, will diminish.

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.

Between the fast flowing marine terminating outlet glaciers, the ice sheet particularly in the southwest quadrant has numerous glaciers that terminate on land or in small lakes.

«Glaciers, more formidable around 1600, reached the houses of villages on the lower slopes and crushed them... Small processions of villagers, led by a priest or even a bishop, went to the edge of a glacier and prayed that it might halt.

Using climate models, Radic found that these smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps may contribute more than 4.5 inches (12 centimeters) to world sea level rise by the beginning of the next century, even though they contain less than one percent of all water on Earth bound in glacier ice.

A new study focuses on how small glaciers will contribute to rising sea levels.

His study, based on carbon - dated tree remains, which were recovered under receding alpine glaciers, gives a clear picture of smaller glacier extent than today in several periods over the past 10,000 years.

The results confirm Fountain and Vecchia (1999) conclusion that the number of measurements necessary to determine mass balance on small alpine glaciers is scale invariant, in this case that 40 points satisfactorily minimized errors on both glaciers.

For crying out loud the gravitional mass of Jupiter makes small changes in the eccentricy of the earth's and depending on whether eccentricity max / min is in or out of phase with earth axial tilt min / max spells the difference between glaciers a mile thick covering everything north of Washington, DC and whether grass is able to sprout in Montreal.

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Glaciers world - wide haven't been measured with any accuracy before quite recently; I presume the graph you link is based on the Swiss glaciers, only one (small)Glaciers world - wide haven't been measured with any accuracy before quite recently; I presume the graph you link is based on the Swiss glaciers, only one (small)glaciers, only one (small) region.

We all know warmer temperatures have led to shrinking glaciers, and now two more of Glacier National Park's ice fields are too small to be classified as glaciers, according to a recent article on msnbc.com.

The thermosteric acceleration is small compared with the ice sheets, but on par with the acceleration from mountain glaciers and small ice caps.

«Some small glaciers like this have already disappeared,» he said as melting icicles dripped on nearby rock, exposed for the first time in millennia.

More on Global Climate Change: Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short - Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72 % of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers Greenland Rising as Ice Melts

Bit like the way that the sceptics / denialists are using a small bit of the IPCC's work — say on Indian glaciers — to demolish all of their report?

And almost everyone recognizes the fact that it's warmer now than it used to be, that the glaciers are smaller, there's less snow on the mountains, that there's irregular precipitation and irregular weather patterns in general.