Snow algae in a Himalayan ice core: New environmental markers for ice-core analyses and their correlation with summer mass balance

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2006, Pages 148-153

  Yoshimura, Yoshitaka ^a,c   Kohshima, Shiro ^a   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^a,d   Seko, Katsumoto ^b   Fujita, Koji ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE ALGA; ICE CORE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER;

ASIA; BAGMATI; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; LANGTANG VALLEY; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ALGAE;

EID: 33846097300     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756406781812276     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Ageta, Y. and T. Kadota. 1992. Predictions of changes of glacier mass balance in the Nepal Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau: a case study of air temperature increase for three glaciers. Ann. Glaciol., 16, 89-94.
2. Ageta, Y. and K. Satow. 1978. Study of the mass balance of small glaciers in Khumbu Himal during the summer monsoon season. Seppyo, 40, Special Issue, 4-11.
3. Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson and V. Zagorodnov. 2000. Recovery and identification of viable bacteria immured in glacial ice. Icarus 144, 479-485.
4. Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson and J.N. Reeve. 2001. Isolation of bacteria and 16S rDNAs from Lake Vostok accretion ice. Environ. Microbiol., 3(9), 570-579.
5. Christner, B.C., E. Mosley-Thompson, L.G. Thompson and J.N. Reeve. 2003. Bacterial recovery from ancient glacial ice. Environ. Microbiol. 5, 433-436.
6. Nepal Ministry of Water Resources. 1993a. Snow and glacier hydrology year book 1987-1992. Kathmandu, Ministry of Water Resources. Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
7. Nepal Ministry of Water Resources. 1993b. Snow and glacier hydrology year book 1987-1992 (Supplement III). Kathmandu, Ministry of Water Resources. Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
8. Nepal Ministry of Water Resources. 1993c. Snow and glacier hydrology year book 1987-1992 (Supplement IV). Kathmandu, Ministry of Water Resources. Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
9. Priscu, J.C. and 9 others. 1998. Perennial Antarctic lake ice: an oasis for life in a polar desert. Science, 280(5372), 2095-2098.
10. Richardson, S.G. and F.B. Salisbury. 1977. Plant response to the light penetrating snow. Ecology, 58, 1152-1158.
11. Sheridan, P.P., V.I. Miteva and J.E. Brenchley. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of anaerobic material psychophilic enrichment cultures obtained from a Greenland glacier ice core. Appl. Environ. Microb., 69, 2153-2160.
12. Shiraiwa, T., K. Ueno and T. Yamada. 1992. Distribution of mass input on glaciers in the Langtang Valley, Nepal Himalayas. Bull. Glacier Res., 10, 21-30.
13. Watanabe, O., S. Takenaka, H. Iida, K. Kamiyama, K.B. Thapa and D.D. Mulmi. 1984. First results from Himalayan glacier boring project in 1981-1982. Rart I. Stratigraphic analysis of full-depth cores from Glacier Boring Project 1981-1982 in Nepal Himalaya. In Higuchi, K., ed. Glacial studies in Langtang Valley: a report of the Glacier Boring Project 1981-1982 in the Nepal Himalayas. Nagoya, Japanese Society of Snow and Ice Office. Data Centre for Glacier Research, 7-23.
14. Willerslev, E., A.J. Hansen, B. Christensen, J.P. Steffensen and P. Arctander. 1999. Diversity of Holocene life forms in fossil glacier ice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96(14), 8017-8021.
15. Yoshimura, Y., S. Kohshima and S. Ohtani. 1997. A community of snow algae on a Himalayan glacier: change of algal biomass and community structure with altitude. Arct. Alp. Res., 29(1), 126-137.
16. Yoshimura, Y., S. Kohshima, N. Takeuchi, K. Seko and K. Fujita. 2000. Himalayan ice-core dating with snow algae. J. Glaciol., 46(153), 335-340.