Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century
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...
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| author | Christian Sommer Philipp Malz Thorsten C. Seehaus Stefan Lippl Michael Zemp Matthias H. Braun |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-2d60d55dad214dc990c4317dcd7674652022-12-21T23:09:46ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232020-06-0111111010.1038/s41467-020-16818-0Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st centuryChristian Sommer0Philipp Malz1Thorsten C. Seehaus2Stefan Lippl3Michael Zemp4Matthias H. Braun5Institut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergDepartment of Geography, University of ZurichInstitut für Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGlaciers 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0 |
| spellingShingle | Christian Sommer Philipp Malz Thorsten C. Seehaus Stefan Lippl Michael Zemp Matthias H. Braun Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century Nature Communications |
| title | Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century |
| title_full | Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century |
| title_fullStr | Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century |
| title_short | Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century |
| title_sort | rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the european alps in the early 21st century |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0 |
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