Sentences with phrase «snowfall increases»
"Snowfall increases" means that the amount of snow falling from the sky is getting larger. Full definition
«We suggest that cool sea surface temperatures around Antarctica could offset projected snowfall increases in Antarctica, with implications for estimates of future sea - level rise.»
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Researchers reported in March that over the past 20,000 years, warmer temperatures have indeed correlated with higher snowfall: For each Fahrenheit degree of warming, snowfall increased by about 2.7 percent.
While snowfall increases have helped buffer Greenland's interior, the thawing of glaciers all around the coast have more than offset any gain made over the last few years; since measurements began in 1979, Steffen estimates that melting has jumped by 30 %.
Recent accumulation loss of 11 Gt a — 1 in EA indicates thickening is not from contemporaneous snowfall increases.
(A «positive snowfall temperature slope» in this discussion means that snowfall increased as temperature increased; negative means the reverse.)
«The traditional scheduling of the Paralympic Winter Games, approximately a month after the Olympic Winter Games, poses additional climate challenges as temperatures are warmer and the probability of rain instead of snowfall increases in most of the host locations,» Scott said.
If not, throw them all out and look for something else, like, it snows more when oceans get warmer and more thawed and the more snowfall increases ice volume and more ice weight increases ice flow and the increased ice extent limits the upper bound of temperature and causes cooling.
A high emission scenario shows increase of sea level rise for the next century, while in the low emissions simulation higher moisture holding capacity of the warmer air surrounding the Antarctic Ice Sheet leads to a snowfall increase, offsetting ice mass loss.
When it gets warm, Polar oceans thaw, snowfall increases and stops the warming.