Assertion: glacier's mass balance | /r/HasProperty | positive
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: with high confidence
type: OTHER
value: because of less snow accumulating
type: CAUSE
value: because of higher levels of ablation
type: CAUSE
value: strongly
type: DEGREE
value: in negative
type: OTHER
value: for winter-accumulation glaciers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: If accumulation exceeds ablation for a given year, the mass balance is positive; if the reverse is true, the mass balance is negative.
text: If accumulation exceeds ablation for a given year, the mass balance is positive; if the reverse is true, the mass balance is negative.
text: For winter-accumulation glaciers, the specific mass balance is usually positive for the upper part of the glacier—in other words, the accumulation area of the glacier is the upper part of its surface.
text: The Mass Balance, the balance of accumulation and ablation, is usually therefore positive in the winter and negative in the summer3.
text: If accumulation is greater than ablation, then the glacier has positive mass balance and will advance.
text: With successive years in which accumulation exceeds ablation, then a glacier will experience positive mass balance, and its terminus will advance.
text: The fact is, that snowfalls are higher than the amount of ice that melts, and the mass balance is strongly positive again this year.
text: Glacier mass balance in 2016 (the most recent year with complete data) was -847 millimeters (33 inches water equivalent per glacier), with only one glacier showing a positive mass balance.
text: If ablation is greater than accumulation, then the glacier has negative mass balance and will recede.
text: Annual climatic mass balance was negative at 21 of 24 Arctic glaciers monitored in 2010-2011.
text: This indicates that the mass balances of these glaciers are negative because of less snow accumulating or higher levels of ablation.
text: t* would be in the past, and the glacier would actually have had a negative mass balance at time
text: Although the annual mass balance is affected by fluctuations in SMB, the overall glacier mass balance has been negative with high confidence.