Global Trend of Glacier Melting or Growing and its Impact on Heavy Storms

• Published in: SAMRIDDHI : A Journal of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology
• Main Authors: Singh, Bharat Raj, Singh, Onkar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SMS Institute of Technology 2016
• Subjects: Ice sheet; Glacier growing; Glacier shrinking; Global warming; Climate change.; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://myresearchjournals.com/index.php/SAMRIDDHI/article/view/3987; https://doi.org/10.18090/samriddhi.v8i1.11411

Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite altimeters. In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks. But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica’s growth to reverse, according to Zwally. If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years and it is questionable whether there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses. The study analyzed changes in the surface height of the Antarctic ice sheet measured by radar altimeters on two European Space Agency European Remote Sensing (ERS) satellites, spanning from 1992 to 2001, and by the laser altimeter on NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) from 2003 to 2008. The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away. But, this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for. On other hand, globally every country is facing heavy storm, disastrous rain fall and variance in Climate Change, causing greater loss in production of food grain, disruption of smooth living and development and enhancement of hazardous deceases on account of Global Warming and Climatic Changes. This paper focuses on the current issues and its remedial efforts to be made essentially to curb these issues and save human life and beautiful creatures on the globe