Glaciers and Climate Change resource brief
Arendt A, Larsen C, Loso M. 2011. Glaciers and Climate Change resource brief
Status of multi-phase project studying extent mapping and volume change analysis of selected Alaska National Park glaciers. Notable initial results include the following: • Glaciation in Glacier Bay diminished by 11% (from 53.5 to 48.4% coverage) between 1952 and 2010. • Denali lost 8% of its glacier cover (16.9 to 15.5% coverage) between 1952 and 2010. • The vast majority of glaciers in both parks have shrunk considerably, mainly by terminus retreat, in that time. • Laser altimetry indicates that 13 of 16 glaciers studied in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve exhibit thinning over the study period (1994-2011).
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Arendt, Anthony; Larsen, Chris; Loso, Michael
- Date of Issue
- 2011-10
- Units
- ARCN , CAKN , SEAN , SWAN
- Keywords
- climate, glacial extent, glacial volume, glacier
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate