Sentences with phrase «what glaciologists»

A region of the Greenland ice sheet that had been thought to be stable is undergoing what glaciologists call «dynamic thinning».

When I was in Antarctica in 1995, what the glaciologists were saying about the WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet], is that its changes will mostly likely take a long time, but there was a wild card, in that there are volcanoes under that ice, and if one were to erupt, things could change very quickly.

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.

Not exact matches

Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the University of Rochester who travels regularly to the Antarctic, said ground observations would never tell you the full story of what's going on with ice sheets in that part of the world.

Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, said it is an «interesting paper» that shows that thinning has started in a region thought resistant, in response to warming that is much smaller than what is projected for the future.

«The interesting thing is what happens next, how the remaining ice shelf responds,» said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park.

That study sparked a dizzying debate — but one that will ultimately help glaciologists grasp just what is happening in East Antarctica and push scientists to consider how to handle contentious results in a warming world.

«We don't currently know what changed in 2014 that allowed this rift to push through the suture zone and propagate into the main body of the ice shelf,» said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University who has been studying the Larsen C ice shelf since 2008.

«Going back in time is exactly what we need to do,» says Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

Glaciologists would like to know what's happening.

The glaciologist was combing through satellite and GPS data to see what small, local effects could be clouding satellite measurements of larger changes in Earth's gravity from ice loss.

«The strength of ice might be really different than what a laboratory measurement might tell us, because of all of these impurities coming into play,» said Jeremy Bassis, a glaciologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved with the MIT study.

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored last year's Science paper.

«CryoSat - 2 gives us a new pair of eyes on what is happening to Earth's ice,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist and chief scientist at NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. «The changes in the cryosphere are providing the most unequivocal evidence that we are changing our planet in ways that should concern us all.»

ULB glaciologists Jean Louis Tison and Frank Pattyn took the time to explain their research, what glaciology can...

a) he is not a permafrost scientist (he's a glaciologist) b) science reporting sucks these days c) time scales are quite uncertain, and we're f» ed regardless of what an extra couple methane degrees will do.

Meanwhile some senior glaciologists and others argued that it was a mistake to concentrate on what seemed most probable.

Glaciologists, biologists and agricultural scientists just do what they do, so if the results are / aren't consistent with AGW they're going to report accordingly.

«We're concerned about what happens next, but I would not tie this single event to climate change,» Colorado State University Glaciologist Dan McGrath said.

Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, the Ohio State University glaciologist whose work first focused attention on Kilimanjaro's fading ice, said he saw ample evidence that melting was eating away at what remained.

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored a study appearing last year in Science on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier.

«We are now seeing summer speeds more than four times what they were in the 1990s, on a glacier which at that time was believed to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, glacier in Greenland,» said Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center and the lead author of the paper.

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

What I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likWhat I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likwhat do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likely.

One question for the glaciologists, if we postulate that an impact might have triggered the release of a glacially dammed lake, just what sort of time window are we talking about?

One group, led by geologist Michael Willis, of Cornell University, and another team led by glaciologist Ian Howat, of Ohio State University, report in two different journals on separate but related studies of Greenland's plumbing system: what happens to meltwater.