Volcanic processes disturbed the mass balance of the glacier, thereby accelerating the ablation processes.
Up to now, the database of World Glacier Monitoring Service does not contain mass balance for Patagonian glaciers.
Glacier mass balance of tropical Zongo glacier, Bolivia, comparing hydrological and glaciological methods.
Correlations with lowland meteorological records were used for correcting raw field data and for final calculation of mass balance parameters.
Mass balance calculations were based on direct estimates of its components winter and summer balances, using the stratigraphic reporting system.
The last major assessment of mass balance was published in a 2007 report on climate change issued by the United Nations.
These records, together with the monthly mass balance measured since March 2000, document the annual response of the Martial Este Glacier to the climate variation.
The first mass balance data from this region are now presented.
Within the 24-year period, 67% of the years show negative net annual specific balances, with a cumulative mass balance loss of - 10.50 m water equivalent (w.e.).
Scientists compare annual accumulation to the volume of ice lost to sea each year to calculate the ice sheet's overall mass balance and its contribution to sea level rise.
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To assess the contribution from melting ice sheets, scientists try to measure "mass balance, " which is the difference between the annual snow that falls on the permanent ice sheets each year, and the total mass of ice that melts or breaks off the sheets.
Greater balance between mass customer marketing and account-based marketing.
The vestibule before it for gathering and circulation is a horizontal rectangular volume, while the front portico is a temple form with open walls (a perfect balance of voids and mass), serving as a transition space from the exterior green to interior enclosures.
The favoured way of measuring h in terms of mass employs a device called a watt balance.
Islands like Crete, Mykonos and Paros have been catering to holiday homeowners and mass tourism since the '70s, with overdevelopment and, now, troubled balance sheets.
Whether we choose to recognize it or not, today as in 1863, the very "life of the nation" hangs in the balance if we fail to defeat the coming nexus of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamofascists.
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