Sentences with phrase «through glacier calving»

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

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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.

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.

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.

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...

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