Sentences with phrase «tidewater glacier retreats»

Recent research has fingered the ocean as a trigger for tidewater glacier retreats.

Increasingly, it appears rising ocean temperatures are driving tidewater glacier retreats in Greenland and Antarctica.

«We're seeing more tidewater glaciers retreat,» said glaciologist and team member Fabian Walter of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, Calif. «As they retreat, they thin, and that increases the likelihood that they'll come afloat.»

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When the climate warmed in the late 1800s, it triggered the retreat phase of the tidewater glacier cycle as warm ocean water melted the ice.

The Yahtse's rogue advance is one stage in what glaciologists call the «tidewater glacier cycle» — a drama of growth and retreat that unfolds over centuries.

Retreating tidewater glaciers dominate the Alaskan sea level contribution due to their ability to efficiently transfer mass via iceberg calving [Arendt et al., 2002].

During retreat phase, a tidewater glacier may retreat on the order of 1 - 2 km yr - 1 concurrent with dramatic increases in ice velocity...»

Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.

..................... Richard Telford — «It was a tidewater glacier, prone to rapid retreats once a threshold is passed.»