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Melting Himalayan glaciers will uncover past soot layers — which will further increase their shrink rate 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation Jane Qiu, Pollutants Capture the High Ground in the Himalayas, Science 339 (6123): 1030-1031 (01 March 2013) This is the kind of thing that climate modeling would ordinarily not preliminarily consider Jane Qiu wrote about climate scientist Angela Marinoni and colleagues’ research on the Khumbu Glacier (Mount Everest region, Nepal): [...]

Categories: Atmosphere,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Glaciology,Science

Tagged: accumulation zone, Angela Marinoni, black carbon, black carbon hotspot, dry season, Gangetic Plain, glacier melting, glaciers, glaciologist, Himalayas, Jane Qiu, Khumbu Glacier, Mount Everest, Nepal, organic carbon, Pollutants Capture the High Ground, shrink rate, snow lines, soot, soot layers, South Asia, southeastern Tibet, unburned biomass, Xu Baiqing

Published:: 26 March 2013 – 08:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Tropical Andes glaciers are now retreating at an unprecedented rate — with the lower altitude group most severely affected — surface air temperatures have warmed by 0.68 degrees Celsius over the last seventy years 0

Citation — to study A. Rabatel, B. Francou, A. Soruco, J. Gomez, B. Caceres ´, J. L. Ceballos, R. Basantes, M. Vuille, J.-E. Sicart,C. Huggel, M. Scheel, Y. Lejeune, Y. Arnaud, M. Collet, T. Condom2, G. Consoli, V. Favier, V. Jomelli, R. Galarraga, P. Ginot, L. Maisincho, J. Mendoza, M. Ménégoz, E. Ramirez, P. Ribstein, [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Science

Tagged: 5400 meters altitude, a multi-century perspective, A. Rabatel, A. Soruco, B. Caceres ´, B. Francou, Bárbara Ferreira, Bolivia, C. Huggel, Colombia, E. Ramirez, Ecuador, European Geosciences Union, G. Consoli, glacier evolution, glacier melting, glaciers, J. Gomez, J. L. Ceballos, J. Mendoza, J.-E. Sicart, L. Maisincho, M. Collet, M. Ménégoz, M. Scheel, M. Villacis, M. Vuille, melt water, P. Ginot, P. Ribstein, P. Wagnon, permanent snow accumulation zones, Peru, R. Basantes, R. Galarraga, T. Condom2, tropical Andes, V. Favier, V. Jomelli, W. Suarez, Y. Arnaud, Y. Lejeune

Published:: 22 January 2013 – 13:38
Author:: By BrainiYak

Methane seeps in the Arctic is not new news — but this tidbit about the Arctic methane supply is interesting 0

Citation Katey M. Walter Anthony, Peter Anthony, Guido Grosse, and Jeffrey Chanton, Geologic methane seeps along boundaries of Arctic permafrost thaw and melting glaciers, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1480 (advance online publication, 20 May 2012) There is reportedly a whole lot more methane currently stored under frozen conditions in the Arctic than there is in the atmosphere [...]

Categories: Climate change,Global warming

Tagged: Arctic, glaciers, greenhouse gas, Guido Grosse, Jeffrey Chanton, Katey M. Walter Anthony, methane, permafrost, petagram, Peter Anthony, seeps, thaw

Published:: 21 May 2012 – 12:35
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Antarctic ice losses appear to be due to warm ocean currents that melt the shelves from below — and thereby speed up the velocity of inland glaciers’ ice transport to the sea 0

Citation H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke, and L. Padman, Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves, Nature 484(7395): 502-505 (26 April 2012) How the study was done and what it indicates The British Antarctic Survey reported that: Researchers used [...]

Categories: Climate change,Environment

Tagged: Athena Dinar, British Antarctic Survey, D. G. Vaughan, East Antarctic Peninsula, Elaina Ford, glaciers, H. A. Fricker, H. D. Pritchard, ice shelf, ice shelves, ice-sheet loss, ICESat satellite, L. Padman, M. R. van den Broeke, melting, NASA, ocean currents, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, Southern Ocean, Stephen Cole, West Antarctic, West Antarctica, wind changes

Published:: 25 April 2012 – 14:54
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NASA-funded study of Antarctica ice flow results in “game changer” map — a tool with a future 0

NASA map excites researchers The Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported today that: NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent’s deep interior to its coast, will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from [...]

Categories: Climate change,Environment,Science

Tagged: Alan Buis, animated map, animation, B. Scheuchl, E. Rignot, glaciers, glaciology, Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Irvine, J. Mouginot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, map, polar region, satellite, satellite tracks, sea level, Steve Cole, tracks, University of California

Published:: 18 August 2011 – 16:59
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Tag Archives: glaciers

Melting Himalayan glaciers will uncover past soot layers — which will further increase their shrink rate 0

Tropical Andes glaciers are now retreating at an unprecedented rate — with the lower altitude group most severely affected — surface air temperatures have warmed by 0.68 degrees Celsius over the last seventy years 0

Methane seeps in the Arctic is not new news — but this tidbit about the Arctic methane supply is interesting 0

Antarctic ice losses appear to be due to warm ocean currents that melt the shelves from below — and thereby speed up the velocity of inland glaciers’ ice transport to the sea 0

NASA-funded study of Antarctica ice flow results in “game changer” map — a tool with a future 0

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