Sentences with phrase «snow accumulation since»

The uptick in snow accumulation since the 1920s may suggest an even longer trend of increasing storms, Thomas said.

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That doesn't provide a full picture of snow accumulation, since it doesn't take into account the density of the snow layers that pile on the ice.

Scientists can calculate snow accumulation from satellite data, but satellite records have only existed since 1979.

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.

Dr. Steffen, recently back from the field there, mentioned on Wednesday that the melting rate in summers in most years since my trip had far outpaced the rate of snow accumulation.

Dansgaard et al. (1989); increasingly abrupt changes were seen on further study, Johnsen et al. (1992); Grootes et al. (1993); jumps of Greenland snow accumulation «possibly in one to three years» were reported by Alley et al. (1993); see Alley (2000); five - year Younger Dryas steps: Taylor et al. (1997); a Younger Dryas temperature step in less than a decade was found to be hemisphere - wide since methane gas changed as well, Severinghaus et al. (1998).

«EA [East Antarctic] dynamic thickening [of the ice sheet] of 147 Gt a — 1 [Gt / year] is a continuing response to increased accumulation (> 50 %)[of snow & ice] since the early Holocene.»