Rowan, A.V. orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-5554 (2018) Mountain glaciers under a changing climate. Geology Today, 34 (4). pp. 134-139. ISSN 0266-6979
Abstract
Mountain glaciers are found around the world in ranges such as the Himalaya, the Andes and the European Alps. The majority of mountain glaciers world‐wide are shrinking. However, the rugged alpine topography through which these glaciers flow governs their dynamics and impacts on the regional climate systems that modify glacier mass balance. As a result, the response of mountain glaciers to climate change is difficult to predict, and highly spatially variable even across one mountain range, particularly where orography controls precipitation distributions. To understand how mountain glaciers behave and change, geologists combine many different techniques based on direct observations and dating of glacial geology, measurements of present‐day glaciers, and predictive numerical (computer) models. Recent advances in these techniques and their applications to glacial environments have demonstrated that the glacial geological record is a rich archive of information about how climate has changed in the past, and gives greater confidence in predictions of glacier change in the future, which is required if populations living in glacerised catchments are able to adapt to the rapid response of glaciers to a changing climate.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Rowan, A. V. (2018), Mountain glaciers under a changing climate. Geology Today, 34: 134-139, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12233. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2018 10:35 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2019 01:04 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12233 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/gto.12233 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133583 |