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Widespread Alaska glacier retreat likely not due to climate change

Author(s) -

Schultz Colin

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

eos, transactions american geophysical union

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 86

eISSN - 2324-9250

pISSN - 0096-3941

DOI - 10.1002/2014eo240011

Subject(s) - glacier , tidewater glacier cycle , climate change , glacier mass balance , physical geography , cirque glacier , geology , climatology , geography , oceanography , cryosphere , biology , sea ice , lactation , ice calving , ice stream , genetics , pregnancy

Alaska's Columbia Glacier, which has shed half its mass since 1957, is a dramatic example of how quickly glaciers can shrink. Yet while Columbia has shown a huge decline, a new analysis by McNabb and Hock has found that other glaciers in the region have retreated far less, or even advanced, over the past 6 decades.

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