Timeline for If there's more water in the atmosphere due to global warming, how are there fewer mountain glaciers?
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| Mar 12, 2018 at 22:26 | history | edited | Camilo Rada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2018 at 4:35 | comment | added | John Joe | Actually I would like to see the equations if they're anywhere. If there is something that could quantify how the rate of temperature increase has a greater effect than the increased precipitation in the atmosphere. | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 22:38 | history | edited | Camilo Rada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 19:00 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | But I'm not sure many, perhaps like John, would know the term or understand some of the equations behind it, and so may never come to find such questions. Some of the joy of this site is seeing a variety of question and answer "complexities", hoping to well serve the needs and benefits of all :-) | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 12:15 | comment | added | David Hammen | @JeopardyTempest - There are a number of questions at this site regarding the lapse rate. | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 7:59 | comment | added | JeopardyTempest | @JohnJoe I'm surprised we've never seen much of a question about why snow is more common on mountains. Looks like Physics SE had a question on the related topic of why temperature is cooler aloft a while ago, but if you are looking for more than a comment on why mountains see more snow, maybe you'd see some success asking it as a separate question :-) | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 7:53 | history | edited | JeopardyTempest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 1:18 | comment | added | Camilo Rada | @JohnJoe Yes, temperature drops with elevation, so mountains are colder and precipitation is more likely to fall as snow. Also, air cools as the wind force it to rise over the mountains, enhancing precipitation (a.k.a. Orographic precipitation). Mountains high enough will always have glaciers, and in them the glaciers always grow (it is call the accumulation area) but when the glacier creep down to warmer temperatures it do start melting. A glacier will find balance between accumulation and melting. But the extra precipitation you point is not enough to counteract the increase in temperature. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 22:40 | comment | added | John Joe | Okay, but if it's simply a matter of snowfall, then why does snow always uncoincidentally happen to fall on the mountains? It has to have something to do with the actual height of the mountains themselves. | |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:47 | comment | added | Camilo Rada | @JohnJoe, I've added a sentence to clarify that the temperate glaciers I talk about most of the time, correspond to the mountain glaciers you refer to. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:46 | history | edited | Camilo Rada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | David Hammen | @JohnJoe - This answer does address temperate glaciers. Only the first paragraph covers polar areas. Regarding deserts, it's important to realize that the two largest deserts in the world are Antarctica, followed closely by the Arctic, each of which is more than 50% larger than is the Sahara. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 7:51 | comment | added | John Joe | While your post is well thought, you keep talking about the ocean glaciers and deserts despite that the question is clearly about the ice on mountains. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 4:47 | history | answered | Camilo Rada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |