Sentences with phrase «through calving»

The two big ice shelves still lose mass predominantly through calving, Thwaites shelf is balanced between the two, PIG is more basal melt.

They underwent rapid collapse through calving of vast armadas of icebergs and undercutting of the ice margin by warm ocean currents.»

«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»

They underwent rapid collapse through calving of vast armadas of icebergs and undercutting of the ice margin by warm ocean currents.»

A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the continent took precedence, ultimately leading to the sheet's demise.

Not exact matches

He said farmers have just gone through a long, cold and wet winter — only to experience an extremely late spring and «the most severe» snow storm in a generation right in the middle of the 2018 calving period.

One way to assess the health of ice sheets is to look at their balance: when an ice sheet is in balance, the ice gained through snowfall equals the ice lost through melting and iceberg calving.

A one trillion tonne iceberg — one of the biggest ever recorded — has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, after a rift in the ice, monitored by the Swansea University - led MIDAS project, finally completed its path through the ice.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

The findings also show that the loss of ice from calving has remained more or less constant through the 20th century, says Dr Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute who wasn't involved in the study.

During February 2002, 3250 km2 were lost through iceberg calving and fragmentation.

Unlike the great ice sheet of Antarctica, the Greenland ice sheet is melting both on its surface and also at outlet glaciers that drain the ice sheet's mass through deep fjords, where these glaciers extend out into the ocean and often terminate in dynamic calving fronts, giving up gigaton - sized icebergs at times.

A certified veterinarian at the Tufts Veterinary Field Service will transfer all embryos into recipient (surrogate) females and oversee herd health through to calving.

- Use multi-species stocking (i.e., sheep and cattle together)- Protect livestock in predator proof enclosures, especially at night - Utilize guard dogs, donkeys, or llamas - Confine ewes & cows during lambing / calving & at night - Provide rabbit wire covered enclosures with fencing buried below ground; rabbit cages are not recommended as they may be attacked through the cage or die of shock as they frantically seek cover.

On our active adventures, you'll trek through some of the world's most legendary mountain ranges; go kayaking amid icebergs and calving glaciers; and veer far off the beaten path, discovering wild and stunning landscapes by foot, horseback, and even dogsled.

«This is a huge problem as the whales use this area as a crucial feeding ground; the sustenance provided by the waters off Sakhalin Island see them through the rest of the year — through migration, breeding and calving,» said Leigh Henry, Senior Policy Officer for WWF.

Unusual mammals that can be seen include dugongs, which feed on the sea grass beds in the south of the park, and sperm whales, which travel through the area on their way to calve in the Sangihe Archipelago.

Start your Alaskan adventure with a cruise through the Inside Passage and enjoy views of spectacular fiords, marine wildlife and calving glaciers.

Cruise through Tracy Arm, with one of Alaska's most dramatic glacier settings; the gorgeous Inside Passage, with its whales, soaring eagles, and more; and Glacier Bay National Park, where you'll witness the huge slabs of ice break off and «calve» into the sea.

Watch gray whales spouting as they journey for calving in the warm waters of Baja California and Mexico in December through February and on their return to the Arctic in March through October.

The whales migrate down from their Alaskan home waters to calve in Magdalena Bay from January through mid-March, so this is the only window to see them in Baja.

Our Combo tours are offered late January through mid-March, when the gray whales are present in Magdalena Bay to calve.

Dolphins are frequently spotted frolicking off the point, as are Southern Right Whales during the mating and calving season from June through to November.

DAY 2 - GREY GLACIER: We drive through the guanaco breeding grounds to Grey Lake and board a motor launch to view the calving face of the Grey Glacier at close range.

So long as an ice sheet gains an equal mass through snowfall as it loses through melt, ablation, and calving from glaciers and ice shelves, it is said to be in balance.

That is because the only effectiveness in pushing the global warming hoax has been through analogy — greenhouse, polar bears, rising sees, calving glaciers...

That blog ignored this rather important tidbit of information, probably to mislead people, or maybe they just didn't read the DMI page through, and don't know about the importance of calving in the budget due to their limited knowledge levels.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

We use the equations in (Rahmstorf, S. 2007), and allow users to examine the impact of higher or lower future SLR per degree of warming through a sensitivity parameter, so that users can examine, for example, the impact of higher future rates of SLR due to accelerating melt and calving from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.

It is through an enhanced Jakobshavn Effect (calving at the marine - terminating glacial fronts) that the mass - loss is expected to occur.

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking.2, 3,4,5 Ice sheets grow through snowfall, and shrink through surface melting, water runoff, breakup into the ocean (calving), and direct transformation into water vapor (sublimation).

«Anyone can examine this region in Google Earth and see a snapshot of the same satellite data we used, but only through examination of the whole satellite record is it possible to distinguish long - term change from cyclical calving,» MacGregor added.

It holds 10 times more water than Greenland, and for now is losing nearly all of its ice through glacier calving, not surface melting.