Sentence examples for glaciers number from inspiring English sources

Across the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges, the glaciers number in the thousands and the people who rely on them in the hundreds of millions, along rivers like the Indus in Pakistan, the Ganges and Brahmaputra in India, the Yellow and Yangtze in China and the Mekong in Southeast Asia.

The peak of Mount Rainier was sculpted by ice, and some two dozen named glaciers and a number of smaller patches of permanent ice and snow remain around the summit area.

Some two dozen named glaciers and a number of smaller patches of permanent ice and snow radiate from the broad summit, including Nisqually Glacier, whose retreat and advance over the last 150 years has helped scientists determine patterns in the Earth's climate.

Great slices of snow and ice are disappearing in places from the Austrian Alps to Glacier National Park in Montana, where the number of glaciers has declined from 150 a century ago to 35 today.

In order to calculate and visualize in a consistent manner future glacier extent for a large number of individual glaciers (> 100) according to a given climate change scenario, we have developed an automated and simple but robust approach that is based on an empirical relationship between glacier size and the steady-state accumulation area ratio (AAR0) in the Alps.

Disappearing snow and ice The number of glaciers at Glacier national park has halved since 1968.

The number of glaciers at Glacier national park has halved since 1968.

The paper describes this as "a major expansion in the number of glaciers producing glacial earthquakes and the geographic range of those glaciers".

The river drains the north slopes of the high Alaska Range and is fed by a number of glaciers.

It was once covered with ice and snow; then global warming kicked in and the number of glaciers dropped from 150 (in 1850) to 27.

Using remote sensing studies, the project was able to tally the number of glaciers in the region more than 54,000 and measure the area covered, 60,000 km.