I am concerned with how changes in climate affect glacial mass balance and the physical and chemical properties of snow. (earthsciences.dartmouth.edu)
Compared to their coastal counterparts, inland glaciers account for 95 percent of glacial mass loss due to climate - driven melting, a study published this month in Geophysical Research Letters shows. (wxshift.com)
Further, there has been an almost worldwide reduction in glacial mass and extent in the 20th century; melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet has recently become apparent; snow cover has decreased in many Northern Hemisphere regions; sea ice thickness and extent have decreased in the Arctic in all seasons, most dramatically in spring and summer; the oceans are warming; and sea level is rising due to thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of land ice (ipcc.ch)