Historically unprecedented global glacier changes in the 1 early 21st century

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Zemp, Michael, Frey, Holger, Gärtner-Roer, Isabelle, Nussbaumer, Samuel U., Hoelzle, Martin, Paul, Frank, Haeberli, Wilfried, Denzinger, Florian, Ahlstrøm, Andreas P., Anderson, Brian, Bajracharya, Samjwal, Baroni, Carlo, Braun, Ludwig N., Càceres, Bolívar E., Casassa, Gino, Cobos, Guillermo, Dàvila, Luzmila R., Delgado Granados, Hugo, Demuth, Michael N., Espizua, Lydia Elena, Fischer, Andrea, Fujita, Koji, Gadek, Bogdan, Ghazanfar, Ali, Hagen, Jon Ove, Holmlund, Per, Karimi, Neamat, Li, Zhongqin, Pelto, Mauri, Pitte, Pedro Miguel, Popovnin, Victor V., Portocarrero, Cesar A., Prinz, Rainer, Sangewar, Chandrashekhar V., Severskiy, Igor, Sigurdsson, Oddur, Soruco, Alvaro, Usubaliev, Ryskul, Vincent, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Int Glaciol Soc
• Subjects: GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Greenland; Andreas; glacier; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/59569

Observations show that glaciers around the world are in retreat and losing mass. Internationally coordinated for over a century, glacier monitoring activities provide an unprecedented dataset of glacier observations from ground, air and space. Glacier studies generally select specific parts of these...