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DOI | 10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0 |
Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21(st) century | |
Sommer, Christian1; Malz, Philipp1; Seehaus, Thorsten C.1; Lippl, Stefan1; Zemp, Michael2; Braun, Matthias H.1 | |
2020-06-25 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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ISSN | 2041-1723 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 11期号:1 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; Switzerland |
英文摘要 | Mountain glaciers are known to be strongly affected by global climate change. Here we compute temporally consistent changes in glacier area, surface elevation and ice mass over the entire European Alps between 2000 and 2014. We apply remote sensing techniques on an extensive database of optical and radar imagery covering 93% of the total Alpine glacier volume. Our results reveal rapid glacier retreat across the Alps (-39km(2)a(-1)) with regionally variable ice thickness changes (-0.5 to -0.9ma(-1)). The strongest downwasting is observed in the Swiss Glarus and Lepontine Alps with specific mass change rates up to -1.03m.w.e.a(-1). For the entire Alps a mass loss of 1.30.2Gta(-1) (2000-2014) is estimated. Compared to previous studies, our estimated mass changes are similar for the central Alps, but less negative for the lower mountain ranges. These observations provide important information for future research on various socio-economic impacts like water resource management, risk assessments and tourism. p id=Par 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 +/- 0.2Gta(-1), derived from contemporaneous measurements of glacier areas and elevations. |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000549968400006 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; MASS-BALANCE ; VOLUME CHANGE ; ELEVATION ; PENETRATION ; INVENTORY ; AREA ; TOPOGRAPHY ; AUSTRIA ; IMPACTS |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/278171 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Geog, Wetterkreuz 15, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany; 2.Univ Zurich, Dept Geog, Winterthurerstr 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sommer, Christian,Malz, Philipp,Seehaus, Thorsten C.,et al. Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21(st) century[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2020,11(1). |
APA | Sommer, Christian,Malz, Philipp,Seehaus, Thorsten C.,Lippl, Stefan,Zemp, Michael,&Braun, Matthias H..(2020).Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21(st) century.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,11(1). |
MLA | Sommer, Christian,et al."Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21(st) century".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11.1(2020). |
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