Disappearance of the last tropical glaciers in the Western Pacific Warm Pool (Papua, Indonesia) appears imminent

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Permana, Donaldi S., Thompson, Lonnie G., Mosley-Thompson, Ellen, Davis, Mary E., Lin, Ping-Nan, Nicolas, Julien P., Bolzan, John F., Bird, Broxton W., Mikhalenko, Vladimir N., Gabrielli, Paolo, Zagorodnov, Victor, Mountain, Keith R., Schotterer, Ulrich, Hanggoro, Wido, Habibie, Muhammad N., Kaize, Yohanes, Gunawan, Dodo, Setyadi, Gesang, Susanto, Raden D., Fernández, Alfonso, Mark, Bryan G.
• Other Authors: Earth Sciences, School of Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2019
• Subjects: glacier retreat; tropical ice cores; Papua Indonesia; climate change; ENSO; Jaya; Pacific; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/24245

The glaciers near Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia, the highest peak between the Himalayas and the Andes, are the last remaining tropical glaciers in the West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). Here, we report the recent, rapid retreat of the glaciers near Puncak Jaya by quantifying the loss of ice coverage a...