If this trend continues, experts predict smaller mountain glaciers Patient could melt, areas of frozen ground (permafrost) could thaw and alpine regions could shrink. [ AWORLDOFSCIENCE 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

A thermodynamic sea ice model that allows ice Patient to grow and melt in response to heat exchanges with the ocean and the atmosphere Cause . [ 1CANADACCD 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Together, the present Antarctic and Greenland sheets contain enough water to raise sea level by almost 70 m if they Patient were to melt, so that only a small fractional change in their volume would have a significant effect. [ 11IPCCBILAN2001 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Furthermore, mountain glaciers around the world Patient are expected to continue to melt, adding another 5 to 15 cm of water to the ocean level as the water runs off to sea. [ 6CANADAQFP 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

The warmer climate means that snow Patient tends to start accumulating later in the fall, and melt earlier in the spring Time . [ WG1AR5NK 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

As the ice caps Patient melt, sea levels rise. [ CLIMATECHANGEYOUTH 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Ice in all forms Patient will melt more rapidly Manner , and be less pervasive. [ WG1AR5NK 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

The polar ice caps Patient are melting. [ CLIMATECHANGEYOUTH 0 DMT 11/10/2012 ]

In many parts of the world Location , glaciers Patient are melting at an unprecedented rate Manner . [ AWORLDOFSCIENCE 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Greenland ice sheet Patient has melted at the edges Part and accumulating snow at the higher elevations is consistent with GHG warming supporting an assessment for an anthropogenic influence on the negative surface mass balance of Greenland's ice sheet (result 18, likely, Table 10.1). [ WG1AR5LR 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

For example, local sea level is falling at a rate approaching 10 mm yrÐ1 along the northern Swedish coast (Gulf of Bothnia), due to ongoing uplift caused by continental ice that Patient melted after the last glacial period Time . [ WG1AR5EE 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

If the ice Patient melts and is replaced by darker ocean or land surfaces, less sunlight is reflected, heating the surface. [ AWORLDOFSCIENCE 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Between 2005 and 2008, more than a third of the thicker and older sea ice loss occurred by transport of thick, multi-year ice, typically found west of the Canadian Archipelago, into the southern Beaufort Sea, where it Patient melted in summer Time (Kwok and Cunningham, 2010). [ WG1AR5CX 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

If the huge Greenland ice sheet Patient melts, which might happen over the next few centuries, sea levels could rise by as much as seven metres. [ CLIMATECHANGEYOUTH 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Higher temperatures mean that a greater proportion of winter precipitation falls as rain rather than snow and therefore is not stored on the land surface until it Patient melts in spring Time . [ 3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

The depth of liquid water that would result if a mass of snow Patient melted completely Expanse . [ WG1AR5XA 0 MCLH 18/03/2014 ]

The transport of ice also determines where sea ice Patient eventually Time melts. [ 3CANADAENVIRON 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Increasing temperature Cause will thaw permafrost and melt more snow and ice Patient . [ IPCCREGION 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

The heating Cause will further Degree melt ice Patient . [ AWORLDOFSCIENCE 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

As soon as warming Cause melts the snow and the pack ice Patient , the mean albedo diminishes considerably, the 'ground' absorbs more and more heat, carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere from the ocean, thus increasing the greenhouse effect, and thus increasing the mean temperature and so on. [ JACLET 0 DMT 12/11/2012 ]

Also, methane levels may rise significantly in the future Result if global warming Cause melts the frozen ground in the Arctic Patient . [ PANACEA 6491 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

As the frozen sea surface of the Arctic Ocean melts back, there's less white to reflect the sun's heat back into space -- and more dark, open water to absorb that heat , which Cause then melts the floating sea ice Patient even faster Manner . [ PANACEA 19459 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

Warming Cause modifies rainfall patterns, amplifies coastal erosion, lengthens the growing season in some regions, melts ice caps and glaciers Patient , and alters the ranges of some infectious diseases. [ PANACEA 2014 0 AMG 25/07/2015 ]

As warmer air Cause melts the vast expanses of sea ice that help define the Far North Patient , all the animals depending on that ice for hunting, resting, reproducing, and other key life activities lose the platform on which their existence depends. . [ PANACEA 25092 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

As climate change Cause melts sea ice Patient , the U.S. Geological Survey projects that two thirds of polar bears will disappear by 2050. [ PANACEA 22912 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

That means more energy is absorbed and the water gets warmer , which Cause melts more ice , which gets everything warmer still Patient . [ PANACEA 16594 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

That means more ocean is exposed in winter, absorbing solar radiation instead of reflecting it , as sea ice does. That Cause warms the region further and melts more ice Patient , which leads to more fresh water in the gyre Result . [ PANACEA 4778 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

But when these white surfaces disappear, more solar radiation is absorbed by the underlying land or sea as heat. This heat Cause , in turn, melts more snow and ice Patient . [ PANACEA 31715 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

In New York City, thousands of people clad in blue, representing a "Sea of People," gathered Saturday in Battery Park to mark lower Manhattan's new shoreline if global warming Cause melts glaciers Patient and triggers a rise in sea levels [ PANACEA 8354 0 AMG 25/07/2015 ]

polar bears enjoyed surfing the ice packs as the Artic spring and summer sun Cause melted the once solid ice cap that covers the northern most portion of our planet Patient . [ PANACEA 10045 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

In the late 1990s, phytoplankton blooms in these areas hit their peak in September, only after a summer's worth of relative warmth Cause had melted the edges of the polar ice cap Patient . [ PANACEA 2498 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

The winds Cause not only would have melted thin ice Patient but also pushed floes offshore where currents and winds could push them out of the Arctic Ocean. [ PANACEA 29147 0 AMG MCLH 05/08/2015 ]

Global warming is expected to cause changes in the ocean volume through thermal expansion caused by the flux of heat into the oceans, through the melting of glaciers and ice-caps Patient , and through changes in the volume of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (see Figure 4). [ 10IPCCMODELE 0 MCLH 23/04/2014 ]

In this climate scenario deep water formation is reduced, not by a reduction in moisture evaporation, but by a melting of ice from the Greenland ice cap Patient . [ ENCY 0 MCLH 23/04/2014 ]

Average sea level is expected to rise as a result of thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of glaciers and ice-sheets Patient . [ IPCCAVIATION 0 MCLH 23/04/2014 ]

Apart from the possibility of an internal ice dynamic instability, surface Patient melting will affect the long-term viability of the Antarctic ice sheet. [ 11IPCCBILAN2001 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

In addition, the melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets Patient can add to sea level rise. There is considerable uncertainty in these estimates. [ 3CANADAENVIRON 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

In short, we are in an ambiguous situation in which coexist, within the climate system, a small number of powerful stabilizing mechanisms (notably, the link between temperature and infrared radiation which allows the Earth to rapidly correct any overheating or heat deficit), some destabilizing mechanisms (the liberation of carbon dioxide by the warm ocean, the increase in water vapour, the melting of snow Patient ), and some unspecifiable mechanisms, such as the role of clouds and the oceanic and atmospheric circulations. [ JACLET 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

A second major cause of rising sea level is the melting of land-based ice caps Patient . [ ENCY 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

In these systems, changes in albedo and energy absorption during winter are likely to act as a positive feedback to regional warming as a result of earlier Time melting of snow Patient and, over decades to centuries, poleward movement of the treeline. [5.8, 5.9] [ 3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

Global warming is expected to cause changes in the ocean volume through thermal expansion caused by the flux of heat into the oceans, through the melting of glaciers and ice-caps Patient , and through changes in the volume of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (see Figure 4). [ 10IPCCMODELE 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

As melting of the Greenland ice sheet Patient exceeds the annual snowfall, and there is increasing freshwater runoff from high latitude precipitation, the freshening of waters in the North Atlantic Ocean and the seas between Greenland and Europe increases. [ RAPPORTPENTAGONE 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]

Variations in precipitation have a strong effect on runoff and streamflow, which are simultaneously affected by melting of glaciers and snow Patient . Precipitation variations and their sign depend on the geographical subregion under consideration. [ 3IPCCCONSEQUENCE 0 MCLH 27/04/2014 ]