Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 61, Issue 228, 2015, Pages 745-762

  Zemp, Michael ^a   Frey, Holger ^a   Gärtner Roer, Isabelle ^a   Nussbaumer, Samuel U ^a   Hoelzle, Martin ^a,b   Paul, Frank ^a   Haeberli, Wilfried ^a   Denzinger, Florian ^a   Ahlstrøm, Andreas P ^c   Anderson, Brian ^d   Bajracharya, Samjwal ^e   Baroni, Carlo ^f   Braun, Ludwig N ^g   Càceres, Bolívar E ^h   Casassa, Gino ⁱ   Cobos, Guillermo ^j   Dàvila, Luzmila R ^k   Delgado Granados, Hugo ^l   Demuth, Michael N ^m   Espizua, Lydia ⁿ   Fischer, Andrea ^o   Fujita, Koji ^p   Gadek, Bogdan ^q   Ghazanfar, Ali ^r   Hagen, Jon Ove ^s   Holmlund, Per ^t   Karimi, Neamat ^u   Li, Zhongqin ^v   Pelto, Mauri ^w   Pitte, Pierre ⁿ   Popovnin, Victor V ^x   Portocarrero, Cesar A ^k   Prinz, Rainer ^y   Sangewar, Chandrashekhar V ^z   Severskiy, Igor ^aa   Sigurdsson, Oddur ^ab   Soruco, Alvaro ^ac   Usubaliev, Ryskul ^ad   Vincent, Christian ^ae   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^h Instituto Nacional de Meteorologiá e Hidrologiá   (Ecuador)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^j Ingeniería 75   (Spain)

^k Division of Glaciers and Water Resources   (Peru)

^l UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^m NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

ⁿ INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^o ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^p NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^r Global Change Impact Studies Centre   (Pakistan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^t STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^u AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^v Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^w Nichols College   (United States)

^x MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^y UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^z Geological Survey of India   (India)

^aa Department of Landscape Study and Problems of Nature Management   (Kazakhstan)

^ab Celandic Meteorological Office   (Iceland)

^ac UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^ad Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

^ae LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

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Author keywords

Glacier fluctuations; Glacier mass balance; Mountain glaciers

Indexed keywords

GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIOLOGY; ICE RETREAT; MASS BALANCE; MOUNTAIN; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84942412852     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2015JoG15J017     Document Type: Article

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