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Recent climate change impacts on mountain glaciers / Mauri Pelto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pelto, Mauri, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Cryosphere Science Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glaciers--Climatic factors.
- Glaciers.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwel, 2017.
- Summary:
- Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers face. The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers examined in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated significantly. It is evident that the changes are significant, not happening at a "glacial" pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine regions. There is a consistent result that reverberates from mountain range to mountain range, which emphasizes that although regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ, global changes are driving the response. This book considers ten different glaciated regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a different tune to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of climate change.
- Contents:
- Alpine glaciers : an introduction
- Glacier mass balance
- Juneau icefield
- Northern Patagonia icefield region
- South Georgia, Kerguelen, and Heard Islands
- Svalbard : Hornsund Fjord region
- Novaya Zemlya
- North Cascade range, Washington, USA
- Interior ranges, British Columbia/Alberta
- Himalaya
- New Zealand
- Alps : Mont Blanc-Matterhorn transect
- Alpine glacier change summary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119068143
- 1119068142
- 9781787851290
- 178785129X
- 9781119068150
- 1119068150
- OCLC:
- 962411508
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