Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century

Autor: Christian Sommer, Philipp Malz, Thorsten C. Seehaus, Stefan Lippl, Michael Zemp, Matthias H. Braun
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0
Popis: Glaciers in the European Alps are strongly affected by global warming, yet there is no methodologically consistent alpine-wide analysis on glacier changes. Here the authors show significant glacier retreat and an ice mass loss of 1.3 ± 0.2 Gt a−1, derived from contemporaneous measurements of glacier areas and elevations.
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