New Shrinking Glaciers Roughly The World


Since 1850 Switzerland's glaciers convey shrunk yesteryear or so 50%. The World Glacier Monitoring Service say that this procedure is probable to hap together with that lxxx to xc percent of glacier H2O ice majority volition survive lost yesteryear 2100.

Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger has visualized the extent of Switzerland's shrinking glaciers inward the concluding 160 years inward So Schmolzen buy the farm Schweizer Gletscher inward 160 Jahren Weg. In a serial of multiple mini maps the paper has mapped the modify inward size of the country's 38 largest glaciers. These maps demonstrate the size of the glaciers inward 1850 compared to the size of the glaciers inward 2010. Each mini map includes information on the surface surface area lost inward kilometers together with every bit a per centum of the glacier's size inward 1850.


Nearly all of North America's glaciers are too inward retreat. The charge per unit of measurement of retreat has increased apace over the concluding few decades together with overall each decade sees greater rates of retreat than the preceding one. The National Park Traveler has released an interactive storey map, Glaciers inward Alaska's National Parks: Monitoring Change, which examines the loss of Alaska's shrinking glaciers.

The map uses satellite imagery to demonstrate the modern accomplish of each of the featured glaciers. U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps were used to reach upward one's hear the glaciers' extent inward the mid-20th century. Orange overlays are used on the map to demonstrate this historic extent. This is together with so compared to the extent of the glaciers inward the 21st Century, every bit calculated from the almost recent satellite imagery.


Alaska Ice: Documenting Glaciers on the Move is some other Esri Story Map which uses satellite imagery together with comparisons of modern & vintage photographs to document Alaska's shrinking glaciers.

The primary focus of the map is the U.S. Geological Survey's Repeat Photography initiative. USGS has been comparing modern photographs of Alaskan glaciers alongside historical photos, both alongside the same plain of view. The photographs are compared to document together with empathise the changes to glaciers resulting from the changing climate.

The Alaska Ice storey map visits xiv glaciers inward the U.S. state. Each glacier tin survive viewed on a satellite map together with a modern together with historical photograph of each glacier is compared inward the map sidebar. Of the xiv mapped Alaskan glaciers exclusively 2 are even so advancing.


Timelapse - aerial imagery of the Mendenhall Glacier inward 1991 & 2012

Another interesting agency to examine the loss of glaciers is alongside Google Timelapse. Timelapse allows y'all to compare aerial imagery over fourth dimension for whatsoever place on Earth. You tin thence larn into the refer of whatsoever glacier into Timelapse together with expose the effects of global warming for yourself.

Timelapse provides links to the Shirase Glacier together with the Columbia Glacier simply y'all tin operate the search box to locate whatsoever glacier. You tin thence operate Timelapse to search for whatsoever of North America's or Switzerland's glaciers together with expose the highlighted loss of each glacier for yourself, using Timelapse's historical aerial imagery.
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