Current glacier area in the pyrenees: An updated assessment 2016

Rico, Ibai; Izagirre, Eñaut; Serrano, Enrique; López-Moreno, Juan Ignacio

doi:https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2017.172004

Current glacier area in the pyrenees: An updated assessment 2016

Rico, Ibai

[1];

Izagirre, Eñaut

[2];

Serrano, Enrique

[3];

López-Moreno, Juan Ignacio

[4]

¹
Universidad del Pais Vasco
²
Universidad de Magallanes
³
Universidad de Valladolid
⁴
CSIC - Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2017.172004

Date Issued

2017-01-01

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Artículo

Journal

Pirineos

ISSN

1988-4281

0373-2568

Open Access

diamond

Volume

172

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https://arca.umag.cl/handle/123456789/15679

Glacier area studies in the Pyrenees reported over 2000 ha in 1850, 806.5 ha in the 1980s and 310.33 ha in 2008. In this work we carried out an updated (2016) estimation of the current glacier area of the Pyrenees, based on remote sensing and contrasted with in-situ observations of the most representative glaciers. Our results yield a glacier area of 242.06 ha for 2016. This implies a reduction of 88.25 % since 1850, and a rapid wastage since 1980s, confrming the accelerated shrinkage during the end of the 20th century and the frst decade of the 21st century.

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