Glaciers are not simple things to measure, and you really can't make generalizations about all glaciers in the world.
We tend to speak of "mass balance" when it comes to glaciers, because almost all glaciers both add mass through snowfall during much of the year, and they lose mass during the melt season in summer as the ice melts into water and drains off. It isn't always easy to determine whether a glacier is in net gain or net mass loss, but we have many methods of measuring, including many field methods as well as several clever types of remote sensing from the air and from satellites in space.
This is compounded by the complicated dynamics of glacier movement. Some glaciers have been found to be "surging" glaciers, meaning they may advance at incredibly fast rates (kilometers per year) before almost stopping entirely, and this works in cycles. You can see how it would then be difficult to get an average rate of melt. Also, there are both marine-terminating glaciers as well as those only on land, and their behavior depends on different factors.
In some places, mostly Scandinavia, glaciers are adding mass due to weather patterns that have shifted, for whatever reason (temporarily or permanently - probably the former), in the last decade or two. In most other places, they are losing mass. A new study found about 70% of Himalayan glaciers are losing mass, so even in one region some are gaining and some are losing. It depends on a lot of different factors, certainly not just temperature.
I suppose the question still hasn't been answered. There are numbers out there as far as volume loss and sea level rise per year, per decade, etc., but there is still considerable uncertainty...I don't think there's a point in repeating them. There is not uncertainty, however, in that we know that the majority, likely the great majority, are melting more than they're gaining. That is where I will leave it.
first of all that's a very stupid question and you know the answer, but when the temperature rises above 34 Fahrenheit at the location of the glacier than the glacier will melt, but slowly (unless the temp. keeps rising)
about 3 kgs each day
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Glaciers and ice caps are melting. The ice over Greenland is melting and so is the Arctic sea ice.
Glaciers had been melting all the time even in ice age. This is caused by the movement of the water lifting the glacier up and down creating a crack ripping the ice from the glacier. Then the iceberg flows away and when it reaches warmer waters it starts to melt. Glaciers had been melting even in ice age
An ice front recedes when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement. It is the end of the glacier.
As the ice melts the darker land and water below absorb the sun's heat faster, speeding up the whole process.
Rising temperaturesMelting glaciers, melting land ice and melting Arctic ice.Rising sea levels.
the melting of ice or glaciers
Glaciers and ice caps are melting. The ice over Greenland is melting and so is the Arctic sea ice.
Ice caps and glaciers are melting. They melt during summer and build up again during winter, especially if snow falls. One or two glaciers in the world are actually increasing. But most glaciers and ice caps are losing ice.
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Glaciers had been melting all the time even in ice age. This is caused by the movement of the water lifting the glacier up and down creating a crack ripping the ice from the glacier. Then the iceberg flows away and when it reaches warmer waters it starts to melt. Glaciers had been melting even in ice age
An ice front recedes when a glaciers rate of melting is greater than its rate of movement. It is the end of the glacier.
Snow primarily changes into ice be melting and refreezing. In glaciers, snow is crushed and recrystallizes under pressure.
As the ice melts the darker land and water below absorb the sun's heat faster, speeding up the whole process.
Cause Of Snow Marins And Glaciers
Rising temperaturesMelting glaciers, melting land ice and melting Arctic ice.Rising sea levels.
Melting and compacting of water versus solid ice, which could not compact.