STATE OF THE VERY SMALL GLACIERS IN SUBARCTIC REGIONS OF RUSSIA AT THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURY (PUTORANA PLATEAU CASE STUDY)

• Main Authors: Kovalenko, N.V., Popovnin, V.V., Uspenskaya, E.I., Gubanov, A.S.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Инфинити 2020
• Subjects: small glaciers; Arctic; Subarctic; climate change; glacier degradation; forest fires; Verkhoyansk; Chukchi; Climate change; glacier
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.34660/inf.2020.28.64095; http://naukarus.ru/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2020/Scientific research of the SCO countries - English Reports - May 14 - Part 2.pdf#page=163

The glaciation of the subarctic territories is represented mainly by small forms of glaciation and covers an area of several tens of thousands of km. In the Subarctic, small glaciers are mainly distributed in the Urals, the Putorana Plateau, in the Byrranga Mountains, in the northern part of the Verkhoyansk Range, on the Chukchi Highlands, etc., located at absolute heights of 400 to 1400 m. They are located below the climatic snow line, and their existence is deter- mined mainly by oroclimatic factors. Back in the early 1970s, complete catalogs of 1The work was supported by the RFBR (grant 18-05-60080_Arctic) glaciers were compiled for all such areas within the territory of the former USSR, containing information on the main morphological characteristics of the identified glaciological objects. True, the content of the catalogs was based mainly on the analysis of aerial photographs, and only a small part of the glaciers was covered by route research (by the way, only occasional). Therefore, no detailed glacio- logical characteristics were discussed and could not be discussed. In this context, glaciological expeditions carried out by the field detachment of the geographical faculty of Moscow State University on the Putorana Plateau in August 2002, 2003, 2004, 2019 should be considered. Kovalenko, 2011.