The team measured
glacier area change from 1986 to 2014 using satellite images from Landsat, the U.S. Geological Survey's and NASA's Earth observation programme.
Not exact matches
According to research in the September Nature Climate
Change, precipitation patterns in the
area have increased, which may help larger
glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.
Understanding how mountain
glaciers are responding to climate
change is important because they provide fresh water to many heavily - populated
areas of the globe and can contribute to sea level rise, Winski said.
«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different
areas of the world, and now climate
change is modifying those sites,» said William Colgan, a climate and
glacier scientist at York U and lead author of the new study.
«This lake drainage is the biggest water movement that you would expect to see in this
area, and it didn't
change the
glacier's speed by that much,» Smith said.
«This is an
area of considerable interest, with its many retreating
glaciers,» Hill added, «and with this data as a baseline we'll now be able to better monitor how it
changes in the future.»
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Evans said they expect to see seasonal
changes in carbon dioxide, related to temperature;
changes related to freshwater sources, such as
glacier melt and stream outfalls; and
changes connected to
areas of large development.
In addition, says Riedel, his team uses satellite photos to track
changes in the
glaciers / total
area.
In Patagonia, analysis of
glacier area and length
changes shows that recession is widespread (90.2 % have retreated since 1870), is more rapid in smaller land - terminating
glaciers, and that rates of recession are accelerating.
It seems clear to me that that mountain
glaciers and permafrost are: 1 sensitive indicators of
changes in temperature; 2 uncontaminated by urban heat islands; 3 have short response times (no problem with lagged response to Little Ice Age cooling); have wide geographical coverage (especially in remote
areas).
... indicates that glacial sediment sources were different from modern ones, which could reflect
changes in the catchment
areas of the
glaciers and ice streams.
Our results provide a nearly complete assessment of the spatial pattern in mass flux and mass
change along the coast of Antarctica,
glacier by
glacier, with lower error bounds than in previous incomplete surveys, and a delineation of
areas of
changes versus
areas of near stability.
In central east Greenland, no flow
change is detected on Daugaard - Jensen (Fig. 2E) and Vestfjord
glaciers (
area 9) in 1996 to 2005.
Climate
change has already closed the world's highest ski
area in the world — Bolivia's Chacaltaya
glacier.
The report examines how
changes to
glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region, which covers eight countries across Asia, could affect the
area's river systems, water supplies, and the South Asian population.
Throw in that in some
areas sea level is rising and in others it is falling, thermostatic expansion, natural rise / fall of land, and a largely unknown rate of
glacier melting and we have to be very cautious at arriving at an «average» figure for any sea level
change.
The impact is the melting of the
glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land
areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate
change reactions.
The corresponding regional
glacier areas and the mean cumulative mass
changes since 1997 are given in the table below.
«
Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra
areas will respond more quickly to such
changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»
While rain and snow would still help replenish Asian rivers in the absence of
glaciers, the
change could hamper efforts to manage seasonal water resources by altering when fresh water supplies are available in
areas already prone to water shortages.
Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change report of 2001, a hype regarding the future of Himalayan
glaciers, flooding of Indo - Gangetic plains and coastal
areas and drying of glacially fed rivers has been created.
BBC: Although the latest global update on climate
change says the vast majority of
glaciers worldwide have continued to shrink, scientists have admitted that the Himalayas remain an
area where they still have very limited information.
IceBridge is a six - year campaign to survey and monitor
areas of Earth's polar ice sheets,
glaciers and sea ice and how they are responding to climate
change.
There was no significant
change in the
area of eight other
glacier lakes which were situated at a higher altitude and not created by melting.
Of course when
glaciers retreat to mountain tops in that particular
area or mountains become ice free the weather in that valley
changes.
Melting of snow and
glaciers will lead to increased freshwater influx,
changing the chemistry of those oceanic
areas affected by the runoff.
This has led to a
change in perception about the level of threat, and doubts have arisen that melting
glaciers provide a key source of water in downstream
areas across the entire Himalayan region.
Figure 4: While data are lacking for a good understanding of the patterns of
change in the
glaciers of the Himalayas, there are some generalizations that can be made about the different regions of this vast
area.
Table 1: Based on a best guess of
glacier area in 2050, this projection shows the number of people in the Himalayan
area who could be threatened by food insecurity due to
changes in the Himalayan
glaciers.
In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced
glacier surface
areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface
areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating
change in climatic conditions.»
The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for
glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to
glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal
changes in deglaciated terrain;
changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction;
changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric
areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.
In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small
glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice
area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total
glacier contribution to sea level
change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).
In the last few decades, satellite imagery has provided a means to monitor
glacier extent
changes worldwide, greatly expanding the
areas of ice that scientists can examine.
Due to the steady rise in temperature, the
glaciers have started melting at a rapid pace leading to drastic floods that
change the topography of the
area.