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Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Climate change impacts.
- Source :
- AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment; Jun2021, Vol. 50 Issue 6, p1130-1132, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. The figures for European summer maximum temperature (Tmax) change - the June-July-August Tmax being a highly relevant metric for summer glacier melt - are of the same order: the decadal-scale anomaly in the 1990s was +0.5 °C and in the past decade has risen to +1.36 °C, i.e., almost an extra degree in just 20 years. While worldwide monitoring of mountain glaciers had a long tradition since the end of the nineteenth century, special efforts were undertaken concerning the much more difficult challenges of documenting changes in mountain permafrost. [Extracted from the article]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00447447
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149990125
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01513-1