An Overview of Glaciers, Glacier Retreat, and Subsequent Impacts
... change has had a significant impact on the high mountain environment: snow, glaciers and permafrost are especially sensitive to changes in atmospheric conditions because of their proximity to melting conditions. In fact, changes in ice occurrences and corresponding impacts on physical high-mountain ...
... change has had a significant impact on the high mountain environment: snow, glaciers and permafrost are especially sensitive to changes in atmospheric conditions because of their proximity to melting conditions. In fact, changes in ice occurrences and corresponding impacts on physical high-mountain ...
Coastal Hazards and Climate Change
... The structure and format of the Guidance Manual have also been significantly revised in response to stakeholder feedback, to make the document and the information in it more accessible to the user. Sea-level rise Relative mean sea levels have risen by 0.16 m on average over the last 100 years around ...
... The structure and format of the Guidance Manual have also been significantly revised in response to stakeholder feedback, to make the document and the information in it more accessible to the user. Sea-level rise Relative mean sea levels have risen by 0.16 m on average over the last 100 years around ...
Palmer LTER Site Review
... Paleohistory of Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Ecological response to climate variability Satellite estimation of primary productivity Summary & Introduction to co-PIs ...
... Paleohistory of Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Ecological response to climate variability Satellite estimation of primary productivity Summary & Introduction to co-PIs ...
IOC Regional Committee for the Southern Ocean (Sixth Session
... programmes have been developed through joint efforts by several international organizations, and new projects related to climate, marine living resources, assessment and monitoring of marine pollution, data and information management have been initiated with Southern Ocean components. The Committee ...
... programmes have been developed through joint efforts by several international organizations, and new projects related to climate, marine living resources, assessment and monitoring of marine pollution, data and information management have been initiated with Southern Ocean components. The Committee ...
terminus behavior and response time of north cascade, washington
... position changes from 1984-1998. In cases where the field measurements and photographic measurements differed by more than 20 m the glacier is not used in this analysis. This was the case on two glaciers. Terminus change from 1850-1950 is the distance from the aforementioned LIAM and the position of ...
... position changes from 1984-1998. In cases where the field measurements and photographic measurements differed by more than 20 m the glacier is not used in this analysis. This was the case on two glaciers. Terminus change from 1850-1950 is the distance from the aforementioned LIAM and the position of ...
Forum Future Ocean Floor Mapping - Ismar-Cnr
... beneath the virtually unknown realms of Polar ice shelves and pack ice covered oceans. These environments are less known today than the deep ocean was for Prince Albert I and Professor Julien Thoulet more than 100 years ago. The journey towards GEBCO realizing our ambition of a global high-resolutio ...
... beneath the virtually unknown realms of Polar ice shelves and pack ice covered oceans. These environments are less known today than the deep ocean was for Prince Albert I and Professor Julien Thoulet more than 100 years ago. The journey towards GEBCO realizing our ambition of a global high-resolutio ...
Large Marine Ecosystems
... 2.6 Degradation and loss of habitat is of major concern in LMEs. Twenty per cent of global mangrove area was lost from 1980 to 2005. Loss continues at about 1 per cent per year, mainly driven by land clearing for development. By 2030, more than half of warm-water coral reefs are projected to be at ...
... 2.6 Degradation and loss of habitat is of major concern in LMEs. Twenty per cent of global mangrove area was lost from 1980 to 2005. Loss continues at about 1 per cent per year, mainly driven by land clearing for development. By 2030, more than half of warm-water coral reefs are projected to be at ...
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
... Technical Report, a preliminary Adaptation Strategy Report, and a Community Action Plan with recommendations for future adaptation options and strategies. This technical report comprises the first milestone of the project. It represents the work of a multidisciplinary team led by staff of the Swinom ...
... Technical Report, a preliminary Adaptation Strategy Report, and a Community Action Plan with recommendations for future adaptation options and strategies. This technical report comprises the first milestone of the project. It represents the work of a multidisciplinary team led by staff of the Swinom ...
Future sea level
The rate of global mean sea-level rise (~3 mm/yr; SLR) has accelerated compared to the mean of the 20th century (~2 mm/yr), but the rate of rise is locally variable. Factors contributing to SLR include decreased global ice volume and warming of the ocean. On Greenland, the deficiency between annual ice gained and lost tripled between 1996 and 2007. On Antarctica the deficiency increased by 75%. Mountain glaciers are retreating and the cumulative mean thickness change has accelerated from about −1.8 to −4 m in 1965 to 1970 to about −12 to −14 m in the first decade of the 21st century. From 1961 to 2003, ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 m increased and portions of the deeper ocean are warming.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) projected sea level would reach 0.18 to 0.59 m above present by the end of the 21st century but lacked an estimate of ice flow dynamics calving. Calving was added by Pfeffer et al. (2008) indicating 0.8 to 2 m of SLR by 2100 (favouring the low end of this range). Rahmstorf (2007) estimated SLR will reach 0.5 to 1.4 m by the end of the century. Pielke (2008) points out that observed SLR has exceeded the best case projections thus far. These approximations and others indicate that global mean SLR may reach 1 m by the end of this century. However, sea level is highly variable and planners considering local impacts must take this variability into account.