Sentences with phrase «volume of ice»

A new study determined the total volume of ice tied up in the glaciers worldwide.

It is not clear from these data how much greater the overall volume of the ice is than previously thought.

This huge volume of ice lowered global sea level by around 120 meters as compared to today.

Make sure to adjust smoothie size to accommodate additional volume of ice.

The ice sheets regulate sea levels, store volumes of ice whose melting would raise sea level by up to 61 metres.

It can also be measured in thickness, and the two measures can be combined to calculate the overall volume of ice.

In just the past 5 years the minimum volume of ice in the Arctic was slashed in half.

Predictions of future sea - level rise and reduction in volume of ice sheets are consistent with what the evidence indicates during the Last Interglacial.

Ice displacement patterns such as the one below will drive a great volume of ice out of the Arctic Ocean and into warmer waters.

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

It falls behind Nestlé and Unilever in terms of revenue generated, but in terms of sheer volume of ice cream sold, Penny Chapman says her company is No. 1.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

«This resulted in the dramatic acceleration of the glaciers behind them, with larger volumes of ice entering the ocean and contributing to sea - level rise,» said David Vaughan, glaciologist and director of science at British Antarctic Survey.

Other times, you might see that such and such volume of ice (km3) is equivalent to so many millimetres of sea level rise (sea level equivalent (SLE); the amount of sea level rise on full melting of the ice).

Given this it should not be surprising that the smaller marine terminating outlet glaciers that all do drain the ice sheet, can provide an important volume of ice.

They are somewhat like doorstops, and their speeded erosion could, possibly, let far greater volumes of ice sitting above sea level shifting toward the sea.

Scientists estimate the past volume of ice - sheets in the following way: As water freezes, different isotopes (types of chemicals) tend to freeze out at different rates.

A reflective boost of this size could help retain significant volumes of ice, catch southward flowing ice that otherwise melts in warmer waters every year, and reduce the climb in global temperatures

Arctic summer sea ice is in rapid decline [2nd lowest extent on record after 2007, and perhaps more importantly, the lowest volume of ice ever — this, along with the methane increase, could indicate a tipping element has been crossed that will kick climate change into a higher gear]

The buttresses of ice frozen around Antarctica's edges, hundreds of meters thick in many cases, are also in the sea, but they can act like doorstops and — once moved out of the way — can allow huge volumes of ice on the continent (in theory) to move toward the sea more easily.

Of course, calving is a natural process for icebergs, but scientists are divided over the cause of Larsen C calving due to the sheer volume of ice that broke off.

At the end of this summer, only a quarter of the Arctic Ocean was still covered in ice, a record low in modern times, and the total volume of ice was just a fifth of what it was three decades ago (see «Record Arctic ice loss»).

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

A second application of salinity is to diagnose the global volume of ice.

Remote Condenser Ice Machines are vital to any foodservice or bar operation that produces a large volume of ice.

European Space Agency's CryoSat mission said earlier this month that the volume of the ice continues to thin, despite variations in the ice extent, for example.

But the story in East Antarctica is still murky, they report; although the volume of its ice shelves has fluctuated significantly, they found no clear trend of volume loss during that time period.

«That may not sound like a lot, but consider the volume of ice now locked up in the planet's three greatest ice sheets,» she writes in a recent issue of Scientific American.

The volume of ice divergence has doubled since 2000 due to a more mobile ice cover as multiyear ice has declined, which can explain the drastic ice reduction in the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

However, Pluto's basin is significantly larger than the volume of ice it contains today, suggesting that Pluto's heart has been slowly losing mass over time, almost as if it was wasting away.

«With the widespread changes seen in Antarctic sea ice conditions over the last few years, this process could be affecting other glaciers around Antarctica and the volume of ice they discharge into the ocean,» he added.

Measurements of ice sheet elevation changes indicate the volume of ice lost, and hence the contribution to sea levels, he tells Carbon Brief.

42 Eric, data on the volume of ice and potential sea level rise (pslr) associated with the various components are given in a table on this page:

Dividing 3 meters into the volume of ice that our volcano melted, we find that it would cover an area of just under 30 billion meters square, or a little less than 30 thousand square kilometers.

but as Greenland's major outlet glaciers have recently shown, rapid acceleration can quickly deliver large volume of ice to the ocean.

The energy need to melt a volume of ice is equal to the energy needed to warm water by 80 C. Thus the energy that can produce 0.6 C of warming would cause the melting of 0.6 / 80 = 0.75 % of the ice cover per year.