Record-low snow accumulation on biggest Alpine glacier: study
Swiss glaciers have continued to shrink at an alarming rate this year, while snow accumulation on the largest glacier in the Alps reached a record low, a study showed Friday.
Swiss glaciers have continued to shrink at an alarming rate this year, while snow accumulation on the largest glacier in the Alps reached a record low, a study showed Friday.
Environment
Oct 16, 2020
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With warming climates around the world, many regions are experiencing changes in snow accumulation and persistence. Historically, researchers and water managers have used snow accumulation amounts to predict streamflow, but ...
Environment
May 7, 2018
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There's a lot more snow piling up in the mountains of North America than anyone knew, according to a first-of-its-kind study.
Environment
Mar 13, 2018
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Owing to its huge volume, the Antarctic ice sheet has the potential to cause a global-scale sea level rise. Not only that, but it is also closely entwined with many important aspects of the Earth-atmosphere system, such as ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2017
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Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface layer of soil that remains mostly frozen throughout the year, ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2016
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The Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass in recent decades. However, long records of snow accumulation are needed to place the recent changes in context. In this paper we present 300-year ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2015
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Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica's coastal ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2015
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A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2015
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Snowpack can be difficult to measure in the rugged, varied terrain of northern Arizona's forests, and warming winters only complicate the picture. But a careful look into the past, layered with scrutiny of the present, reveals ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2015
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A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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