wa.water.usgs.gov The USGS Benchmark Glacier Program: 50-Year Record of Glacier Mass Balance Reveals Shifting Climate in the Pacific Northwest and

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Cascade Glacier; Meier; Pacific; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.173.2093; http://quickplace.mtri.org/QuickPlace/bering/PageLibrary85256E4500721A82.nsf/h_Index/0446ECA09A35F7A08525745C006D5DA9/%24file/GlacierHandout_WA_AK.pdf/

began in 1957 as a result of research efforts during the International Geophysical Year (Meier and others, 1971). After 50 years of study, the USGS now has three glacier mass balance records that show the recent dramatic shrinkage of glaciers in three different climatic regions of the United States:...