Sentence examples for melt rate of from inspiring English sources

Debris-covered glaciers are common in the Tibetan Plateau, where ablation zones are mantled in a supraglacial debris cover that influences glacier mass balance, runoff, and response to climate change by affecting the melt rate of the underlying ice.

What is the annual melt rate of the Tibetan Plateau glaciers that supply water to most of Asia's major river systems?

Likewise, he says, the modelers have "made major advances," though the ice model will need to be combined with an equally sophisticated ocean model to more precisely estimate the melt rate of the ice sheet.

In the past decade, the melt rate of some of the continent's most significant glaciers has tripled.

In other words, the ice retreated with exceptional speed this May -- a speed close to the average melt rate of July.

Rajendra Pauchauri, the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been at the center of the controversy about inadequately vetted data on the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers.

In another nasa report, released last month, researchers found that between 1995 and 2000 the melting rate of the Patagonian ice fields, in Chile and Argentina, had more than doubled.

Even at the present -- admittedly alarming -- melting rate of 10 cubic miles of ice a year, the glaciers look set to remain a major tourist attraction for years to come.

It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate.

This indicates that the chemical melting rate of ice was rate-limited by mass diffusion.

The effect of convective heat transfer on the melting rate of PCM is assessed.