Sentence examples for study of glaciers from inspiring English sources

Three brothers of the German Schlagintweit family pioneered the study of glaciers as indicators of global climate change, techniques of climate measurement, and the representation of mountain terrain on maps.

Studies of glaciers and ice sheets have increased the demand for high performance numerical ice flow models over the past decades.

It should be noted that Agassiz made other significant scientific contributions, especially his studies of glaciers, which substantiated advancements which helped to modernize geology.

Politics and logistics make a comprehensive study of Himalayan glaciers difficult, but if those individual glaciers which have been studied recently are representative, then the glaciers are retreating.

The Reid Glacier was named by the members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition for Harry Fielding Reid (1859 1944), professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University, who was well known for his studies of glacier flow and stratification in Alaska and the Alps.

In the Kebnekaise Mountains of northern Sweden, a study of 16 glaciers between 1990 and 2001 found that 14 glaciers were retreating, one was advancing and one was stable.

Alpine permafrost studies had their beginning in the study of rock glaciers in the Alps of Switzerland.

He acknowledges that the findings may yield more questions than answers in the study of Arctic glaciers, but he hopes that the search for answers will help scientists build better computer models of glacial dynamics.

In one study of 244 glaciers on the peninsula, 212 have retreated an average of 600 m from where they were when first measured in 1953.

A single scientific paper, the most complete published study of the glacier to date, referred to it as the "Amphitheater glacier," but that name has not been used otherwise.

The first scientific study of the glacier was performed by the Vaux family from 1887 to 1912.