Sentences with phrase «when glaciers calve»

That's because the IPCC models only take into account temperature changes at the surface of glaciers, but not the rapid melting that occurs when glaciers calve and break up into the ocean, Rignot said.

In fact, up until 2005, around 52 % of this ice loss happened when glaciers calved to deliver icebergs.

Not exact matches

Records at the center, located at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, date back to the 1970s, when seismologists first recognized that calving glaciers created unmistakable seismic signals hundreds of kilometers away, West said.

«There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,» says Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine.

I think Manhattan is only a reasonable unit when it comes to calving glaciers.

Here, ice is loss by melting rather than iceberg calving as when glaciers meet the sea.

The rapid melting of Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has produced a special category of earthquake known as a glacialquake.1, 3 Once thought to occur when glacial ice strikes solid earth beneath it, glacialquakes are now attributed to lurching that occurs when parts of the glacier break off (calve) into the ocean.4, 5

Calving glaciers are more challenging than ordinary ones when it comes to documenting change.

Icebergs form when chunks of ice calve, or break off, from glaciers, ice shelves, or a larger iceberg.