Sentences with phrase «snow accumulation over»

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulation over the glaciers, but would also expose 90 % of the current glacier area to melt in the warmer months,» he says.

«Such an increase would not only reduce snow accumulations over the glaciers, but would also expose over 90 % of the current glaciered area to melt in the warmer months.»

Not exact matches

Temperatures hovering around 30 degrees and snow accumulations of up to ten inches were promised over Mother's Day weekend.

An ice core is a core sample from the accumulation of snow and ice over many years that have recrystallized and have trapped air bubbles from previous time periods.

Spatial and temporal variability in snow accumulation at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide over recent centuries.

With over three feet of snow still in our backyard from this winter's accumulation, I'm desperate for spring to come to Minnesota.

But also keep in mind that Lambeck et al (2002) have suggested that loss of permanent ice over the Arctic Sea at the end of the last interglacial allowed for increased accumulation of snow and ice at high latitudes because of the increased amount of moisture available.

The accumulation of soot on the summer snows of mountaintops and glaciers all over the globe.

A combination of low winter snow accumulation and warm spring temperatures created a new record low spring snow cover duration over the Arctic in 2010, since satellite observations began in 1966.

The resulting larger waves, which also seem to persist for longer because they move more slowly west to east, tend to push warm air into the Arctic (e.g., over Alaska) later and later into the year, leading to very warm conditions and the later and later freezing of the land surface and later accumulation of snow.

Ice - flow corrections allow reconstruction of snow accumulation rates over tens of thousands of years with little additional uncertainty.

[1] The mid - to late snow season is precisely when significant loss of snow pack is seen at nearly all locations over the past few decades, both through decreases in snow accumulation and increases in snow melt.

People all over the world rely on melting snow to replenish their water supplies, and the earlier melt (and sometimes smaller accumulation) reduces the water availability for these people, threatening their way of life.

Stomata data are in no way «better» than ice core CO2 data, they are proxy's of local CO2 levels, not like ice cores which are direct measurements of CO2 in the ancient bulk (95 %) of the atmosphere, be it averaged over several years to several centuries, depending of the snow accumulation rate of the ice core.

Ice core CO2 accurately follows the CO2 in the atmosphere, be it averaged over 10 to 600 years, depending of the snow accumulation.

Finally, they translated the brightness into snow accumulation and melting over time.

The Supreme Judicial Court granted further appellate review, and, after reviewing the law in this area over the last century, the Court concluded that the distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and ice was a «relic of abandoned landlord - tenant law» which «has sown confusion and conflict in our case law.»