CHANGING OF THE ALTAI GLACIER SYSTEM SINCE THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY AND ITS RESPONSE TO THE CLIMATE WARMING IN FUTURE

Characteristics of the Altai glacier system are analyzed on the data from Chinese and Former Soviet Union glacier inventories. Two glacier data sets, recent remote sensing data and the glacier inventories data were compared. It has been found that 208 glaciers disappeared and the glacial area decrea...

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Main Authors: V. M. Kotlyakov, Xie Zichu, Wang Shuhong, Wang Xin, T. Y. Khromova, G. A. Nosenko
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Nauka 2015-11-01
Series:Лëд и снег
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Online Access:https://ice-snow.igras.ru/jour/article/view/220