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Technical Report: Mountain glaciers melting
2023Mountain regions are known as the “water towers of the world” for their capacity to store freshwater in glaciers. River basins with glaciers on their headwaters benefit from water stored as ice, representing a regulating water source for downstream river flow, particularly during the summer and in dry periods, especially in times of drought.
Melisa Mena Benavides +3 more
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Mountain glacier identification from SAR images
SPIE Proceedings, 2011Because the terrain of mountain glacier is usually very rugged, it is hard to measure glaciers and estimated their changes in larger area by conventional measuring method. With fast development of remote sensing technique, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry is used for glacier monitoring with the ability of all-time and all-weather ...
Hong'an Wu +3 more
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Mathematical simulation of melting mountain glaciers
2020<p>Freshwater shortage is one of the global problems of our time. Glaciers contain a large amount of freshwater on the Earth. Nowadays mountain glaciation is decreasing almost throughout the world (Panov, 1993; Duethmann et al., 2016; Fausto et al. 2016).
Egor Belozerov +2 more
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Pleistocene glaciers on southern California mountains
American Journal of Science, 1959The deposits of 7 valley glaciers have been mapped in the San Gorgonio area of the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California. These ice bodies headed at elevations between 10,300 and 11,300 ft., the lowest elevation attained was 8700 ft., and lengths were 0.5 to 1.7 mi. Dry Lake glacier was the largest. It covered 0.84 sq. mi. on the N.
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Mountain glaciers as paleoclimate proxies
2017Glaciers offer the potential to reconstruct past climate over timescales from decades to millennia. They are found on nearly every continent, and at the Last Glacial Maximum, glaciers were larger in all regions on Earth. The physics of glacier-climate interaction is relatively well understood, and glacier models can be used to reconstruct past climate ...
Mackintosh, A +2 more
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IMPACTS OF MELTING MOUNTAIN GLACIERS
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2021openaire +1 more source
Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia
Earth-Science Reviews, 2020Katie E Miles, Bryn Hubbard, Ann V Rowan
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