Sentences with phrase «disappearing small glacier»
The Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia (16 ° S) is a typical example of a disappearing small glacier, whose area in 1940 was 0.22 km2, and which has currently reduced (in 2005) to less than 0.01 km2 (Figure 1.1)(Ramirez et al., 2001; Francou et al., 2003; Berger et al., 2005), with current estimates showing that it may disappear completely before 2010.
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Small glaciers are the most vulnerable, and are disappearing.
Because glaciers are so sensitive to small temperature changes, even if we stopped emissions now, many glaciers will still disappear.
Kelly and Lowell (2009) say that «subsequent to late - glacial or early Holocene time, most local glaciers were smaller than at present or may have disappeared completely during the Holocene Thermal Maximum,»
«Because the maximum thickness of these small, low - altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 meters [131 feet,] with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,» Rabatel said.
In the Andes, a number of small glaciers have already disappeared, such as the Chacaltaya in Bolivia and Cotacachi in Ecuador.
As the larger glaciers shrink and the smaller ones disappear, the ice melt that sustains rivers, and the irrigation systems dependent on them, will diminish.
Small - sized glaciers are particularly vulnerable in warmer climates, with many of them having already disappeared in several parts of the world during the last century.
«Because the maximum thickness of these small, low - altitude glaciers rarely exceeds 40 metres, with such an annual loss they will probably completely disappear within the coming decades,» said lead author Antoine Rabatel, from the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France.
«Some small glaciers like this have already disappeared,» he said as melting icicles dripped on nearby rock, exposed for the first time in millennia.
Some small glaciers have completely disappeared, such as the Chacaltaya glacier of Bolivia, which was once the world's highest ski resort, but which vanished in 2009.