Sentences with phrase «temperature melting of the ice sheet»

So scientists are keen to know at what temperature melting of the ice sheet is likely to become irreversible.

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Temperatures soaring above 10 °C caused more than a tenth of the island's vast ice sheet to start melting last week — a month before significant melt usually begins.

Maximum temperature extremes were also associated with widespread melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

For example, heat waves were particularly severe, droughts were extensive in tropical forests, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet accelerated in association with shifts in the 8 - day maximum temperature.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

«We tend to think that ice sheets will melt or respond to increases in temperature on hundreds - or thousands - of - year time scales,» Montañez said.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

«The Greenland ice sheet as a whole is shrinking, melting and reducing in size as the result of globally changing air and ocean temperatures and associated changes in circulation patterns in both the ocean and atmosphere,» Muenchow said.

The prospect of the Arctic sea - ice melting completely; ice - sheets breaking off Antarctica; record temperatures — I'm a complete numbers geek.

The research published in Nature Communications found that in the past, when ocean temperatures around Antarctica became more layered - with a warm layer of water below a cold surface layer - ice sheets and glaciers melted much faster than when the cool and warm layers mixed more easily.

But in July 2012, a combination of soot from fires in Siberia coupled with warm temperatures caused a record - setting 95 percent of the ice sheet to melt over the course of a week.

Glacier speed also depends on bottom drag (which is a function of temperature and lubrication by melt water) and also stresses within the ice sheet / shelf as well.

In the long term, changes in sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the worlIce Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the worlice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..

Emerging from a winter that has had staggeringly warm Arctic temperatures, scientists monitoring the vast Greenland ice sheet announced Tuesday that it is experiencing a record - breaking level of melt for so early in the season.

A living carpet of algae, dust and wind - blown soot is darkening the Greenland Ice Sheet and exacerbating melting as Arctic temperatures rise.

Rising Seas: Warmer ocean water temperatures, the pumping of ground water, and melting of the polar ice sheets have added water to the oceans, contributing to sea level rise.

«As the ice sheet in Greenland melts over thousands of years and becomes lower, the temperature will increase because of the elevation loss.

One of the things about ice melting (and this goes for dynamic ice sheet effects as well) is that melt / loss rates increase more than linearly with temperature.

Land - based ice in glaciers and ice - sheets will keep contributing to sea level rise as long as melting exceeds snowfall accumulation; stopping the growth of temperature would not stop the net melting.

Of course not, the rise will continue approximately at the current rate, as e.g. the ice sheets will continue to melt due to the elevated temperature — it takes hundreds if not thousands of years until they have finished this response to the past warminOf course not, the rise will continue approximately at the current rate, as e.g. the ice sheets will continue to melt due to the elevated temperature — it takes hundreds if not thousands of years until they have finished this response to the past warminof years until they have finished this response to the past warming.

The reason is that if an ice sheet is at a temperature of say ~ 20 oC where it never undergoes a seasonal melt, then even a very large temperature increase (say 10 oC) isn't going to make it melt either!

To keep things simple, we will say that all of the ice sheets melt and that they are responsible for all the slow feedback, but this does nothing more than double the effects upon temperature of the original pulse.

It seems that part of the reason for the Holocene was that the Laurentide ice sheet had not completely melted, surpressing arctic temperatures.

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world, has long been of concern to scientists as rising temperatures continue to melt its glacieIce Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world, has long been of concern to scientists as rising temperatures continue to melt its glacSheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world, has long been of concern to scientists as rising temperatures continue to melt its glacieice sheet in the world, has long been of concern to scientists as rising temperatures continue to melt its glacsheet in the world, has long been of concern to scientists as rising temperatures continue to melt its glaciers.

What scientists once thought was a fairly simple linear process — that is, a certain amount at the surface of an ice sheet melts each year, depending on the temperature — is now seen to be much more complicated.

A rise in temperature to the point where the earth's ice sheets and glaciers melt is only one of many environmental tipping points needing our attention.

Black carbon disrupts the South Asian monsoon (by altering the land - sea temperature gradient that drives the movement of moist air), helps melt the Greenland ice sheet (by increasing the solar energy the darkened ice absorbs), and accelerates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

Also at New York Times (though what to make of «scientists said the ice sheet was not melting because of warmer air temperatures, but rather because of the relatively warm water, which is naturally occurring, from the ocean depths»...?)

We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.

-- Susan Solomon, Nature The Long Thaw is written for anyone who wishes to know what cutting - edge science tells us about the modern issue of global warming and its effects on the pathways of atmospheric chemistry, as well as global and regional temperatures, rainfall, sea level, Arctic sea - ice coverage, melting of the continental ice sheets, cyclonic storm frequency and intensity and ocean acidification.

In fact it is a very risky target for all of us: so far, temperatures have increased by just.8 degree Celsius and we are already experiencing many alarming impacts, including the unprecedented melting of the Greenland ice sheet in the summer of 2012 and the acidification of oceans far more rapidly than expected.

One of the most feared of all model - based projections of CO2 - induced global warming is that temperatures will rise to such a degree as to cause a disastrous melting / destabilization of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), which melting is subsequently projected to raise global sea level by several meters.

«Even with just a further 3C of warming — well within the range to which the UN climate science panel expects temperatures to rise by the end of the century — nearly one - fifth of the planet's 720 world heritage sites will affected as ice sheets melt and warming oceans expand.»

Probabilistic projections with the box model allowed consideration of all major uncertainties, such as modeled temperature sensitivities to CO2 concentrations, Greenland Ice Sheet melt sensitivities to temperature changes, and AMOC sensitivities to both temperature and Greenland Ice Sheet melt changes.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

But with several factors combining to increase temperatures in Greenland and reduce the reflectivity of the snow and ice cover, the ice sheet is becoming less efficient at reflecting that heat energy, and as a consequence melt seasons are becoming more severe.

«we find no direct evidence to support the claims that the Greenland ice sheet is melting due to increased temperature caused by increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.

Higher temperatures in polar regions and a decrease in the salinity of surface water due to melting ice sheets could interrupt such circulation, the report says.

Simulating the variation of the ice sheet's albedo using a regional climate model — Modèle Atmosphérique Régionale (MAR), which some members of the team helped develop — indicated that increasing temperatures and melting accompanied by snow grain growth and greater bare ice exposure account for about half the decline, the scientists report.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

Temperatures are rising across the globe, but scientists say that the warmth in the Arctic has been especially profound, as they report exceptionally low snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and premature seasonal melting of sea ice along with the Greenland ice sheet.

The report, sponsored by the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found unprecedented temperatures this year in the Arctic contributed to a record - breaking delay in the annual freeze — prompting extensive melting of the Greenland ice sheet and land - based snow cover.

A massive ice sheet almost completely covers Greenland, and as summertime temperatures climb and sunlight hours lengthen, parts of the ice sheet surface usually melt, especially at lower elevations near the coast.

Such temperatures begin to threaten key climate impacts like permafrost thaw, 3 - 4 meters of sea - level rise from West Antarctic Ice Sheet melt, risk of up to 80 percent mountain glacier loss, complete Arctic sea ice loss during summer, and 6 - 7 meters of sea level rise from Greenland meIce Sheet melt, risk of up to 80 percent mountain glacier loss, complete Arctic sea ice loss during summer, and 6 - 7 meters of sea level rise from Greenland meice loss during summer, and 6 - 7 meters of sea level rise from Greenland melt.

At the end of the day, the discussion about a single calendar year obscures the more important long - term trend of warming air temperatures, warming and acidifying oceans along with melting ice sheets, all of which are hallmarks of manmade global warming.

The increased absorption of solar radiation raises the temperature of the ice sheet and accelerates the melting process.

Over the past quarter - century, both the extent of melting and the length of the melt season on the Greenland ice sheet have been growing, as local temperatures have risen.6 Satellites measure the extent of melting by differentiating between areas of the ice mass that are fully frozen and those with surface meltwater.

«Understanding Arctic temperature variability is essential or assessing possible future melting of the Greenland ice sheet, Arctic sea ice and Arctic permafrost.