Current glacier area in the Pyrenees: an updated assessment 2016
Glacier area studies in the Pyrenees reported over 2000 ha in 1850, 806.5 ha in the 1980s and 310.33 ha in 2008. In this work we carried out an updated (2016) estimation of the current glacier area of the Pyrenees, based on remote sensing and contrasted with in-situ observations of the most represen...
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Glacier area studies in the Pyrenees reported over 2000 ha in 1850, 806.5 ha in the 1980s and 310.33 ha in 2008. In this work we carried out an updated (2016) estimation of the current glacier area of the Pyrenees, based on remote sensing and contrasted with in-situ observations of the most representative glaciers. Our results yield a glacier area of 242.06 ha for 2016. This implies a reduction of 88.25 % since 1850, and a rapid wastage since 1980s, confirming the accelerated shrinkage during the end of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Los estudios de superficie glaciar en los Pirineos han informado de más de 2000 ha en 1850, 806,5 ha en la década de 1980 y 310,33 ha en 2008. En este trabajo hemos llevado a cabo una estimación actualizada (2016) de la superficie de los glaciares actuales en los Pirineos, a partir de imágenes satelitales contrastadas con observaciones “in situ” de los glaciares más representativos. Nuestros resultados dan una superficie glaciar de 242,06 ha para el año 2016. Esto implica una reducción del 88,25% desde 1850 y una rápida disminución desde la década de 1980, lo que confirma el acelerado declive durante el final del siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI. |
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The physical basis of glacier volume-area scaling perturbations in the ice mass balance rate D (rate of ice accumulation area at relatively high elevations low elevations (D<0 on a yearly average), Volume-Size. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102: 20355–20362. https://doi.org/10.1029/97JB01696 Chueca, J. & Lampre, F. 1994. Los glaciares Altoaragoneses. Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 32 pp., Huesca. Chueca, J., Julián, A., Saz, M.A., Creus J. & López-Moreno, J.I., 2005. Responses to climatic changes since the Little Ice Age on Maladeta Glacier (Central Pyrenees). Geomorphology, 68: 167–82. González Trueba J.J., Martín Moreno R., Martínez de Pisón, E. & Serrano, E., 2008. 'Little Ice Age' glaciation and current glaciers in the Iberian Peninsula. The Holocene, 18(4): 551–568. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608089209 Grove, J.M., 2004. Little Ice Ages: ancient and modern. Vol. I and II. Methuen, 715 pp., London. Grunewald, K. & Scheithauer, J., 2010. Europe's 2010 southernmost glaciers: response and adaptation to climate change. Journal of Glaciology, 56 (195): 129-142. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214310791190947 Huss, M. & Fischer, M., 2016. Sensitivity of Very Small Glaciers in the Swiss Alps to Future Climate Change. Frontiers in Earth Science, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00034 IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, 151 pp., Geneva, Switzerland. López-Moreno, J.I., Nogués-Bravo, D., Chueca-Cía, J. & Julián-Andrés, J., 2006, Change of topographic control on the extent of cirque glaciers since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L24505. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028204 López-Moreno, J.I., Revuelto, J., Rico, I., Chueca-Cía, J., Julián, A., Serreta, A., Serrano, E., Vicente Serrano, S.M., Azorín-Molina, C., Alonso-González, E. & García-Ruiz, J.M., 2016. Thinning of the Monte Perdido Glacier in the Spanish Pyrenees since 1981. The Cryosphere, 10(2): 681–694. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-681-2016 Marshall, S., 2014. Glacier retreat crosses a line. Science, 345(6199), 872. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258584 PMid:25146269 Marti, R., Gascoin, S., Houet, T., Ribière, O., Laffly, D., Condom, T. & René, P., 2015a. Evolution of Ossoue Glacier (French Pyrenees) since the end of the Little Ice Age. The Cryosphere, 9(5): 1773–1795. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1773-2015 Marti, R., Gascoin, S., Houet, T., Laffly, D. & René, P., 2015b. Les glaciers des Pyrénées en 1850 et 2011: un inventaire transfrontalier à partir d'images aériennes et d'observations in situ. Un retrait sans équivoque vers les plus hautes parties des cirques englacés. Poster, 26th IUGG General Assembly, Jun 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. Martínez de Pisón, E. & Arenillas, M., 1988. Los glaciares actuales del Pirineo español. En: La nieve en el Pirineo Español. MOPU. Servicio de Publicaciones: 29–98 pp., Madrid. René, P., 2013. Le réchauffement climatique en images, Ed. Cairn, 167 pp., Pau. René, P., 2016. Les glaciers des Pyrénées francaises: Cycle glaciaire 2015-16. Association Moraine. Rico, I., Serrano, E., San José, J.J. & Del Río, M., 2016. Responses to Climatic Changes since the Little Ice Age on La Paul Glacier (Central Pyrenees). Krei, 13: 105-116. http://hdl.handle.net/10810/18801. Rico, I., Serrano, E., Del Río, M., Sanjosé, J.J. & Tejado Ramos, J.J., 2012. Estructura y dinámica actual del glaciar de La Paul (Pirineos): Aplicación de Laser Escaner y Georadar. En: Avances de Geomorfología en España 2010-2012. SEG-Universidad de Cantabria: 235-238 pp., Santander. Rico, I., Serrano, E., López Moreno, J.I., Revuelto, J., Atkinson, A. & De San José, J.J., 2014. El glaciar de la Maladeta (Pirineos): Evolución del frente y variabilidad ambiental (2010-2013). XIII Reunión Nacional de Geomorfología: 535–538 pp., Cáceres. Schrader, F., 1936. Sur l'étendue des glaciers des Pyrenees 1894. Pyrénées, 201–221, Toulouse. Serrano, E., Agudo, C. & González Trueba, J.J., 2002. La deglaciación de la alta monta-a. Morfología, evolución y fases morfogenéticas glaciares en el macizo del Posets (Pirineo aragonés). Cuaternario y Geomorfología, 16 (1-4): 111-126. http://hdl.handle.net/10902/2681. Serrat, D. & Ventura, J., 1993. Glaciers of the Pyrenees, Spain and France. Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. E49–E61. Tihay, J.P., 1992. Le cirque de Garvarnie et ses glaciers. Images d'une disaparition annocé. Pyrénées, 2-3: 175-185, Toulouse. Williams, R., Hall, D., Sigurdsson, O. & Chien, Y., 1997. Comparison of satellite-derived with ground based measurements of the fluctuations of the margins of Vatnajökull, Iceland, 1973–92. Annals of Glaciology, 24: 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260305500011964 WGMS, World Glacier Monitoring Service, 2008. Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures, 88. Retrieved from http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/. Zemp, M., Frey, H., Gärtner-Roer, I., Nussbaumer, S.U., Hoelzle, M., Paul, F., Haeberli, W., Denzinger, F., Ahlstroem, A.P., Anderson, B., Bajracharya, S., Baroni, C., Braun, L.N., Caceres, B.E., Casassa, G., Cobos, G., Davila, L.R., Delgado Granados, H., Demuth, M.N., Espizua, L., Fischer, A., Fujita, K., Gadek, B., Ghazanfar, A., Hagen, J.O., Holmlund, P., Karimi, N., Li, Z., Pelto, M., Pitte, P., Popovnin, V.V., Portocarrero, C.A., Prinz, R., Sangewar, C.V., Severskiy, I., Sigurdsson, O., Soruco, A., Usubaliev, R. & Vincent, C., 2015. Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century. 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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(9), S73-S76. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/110100 Arenillas Parra, M., Cobos Campos, G., Navarro Caravallo, J., 2008. Datos sobre la nieve y los glaciares en las cordilleras españolas. El programa ERHIN (1984-2008). Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino, 236 pp., Madrid. Bahr, B., Meier, F. & Peckham, S.D., 1997. The physical basis of glacier volume-area scaling perturbations in the ice mass balance rate D (rate of ice accumulation area at relatively high elevations low elevations (D<0 on a yearly average), Volume-Size. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102: 20355–20362. https://doi.org/10.1029/97JB01696 Chueca, J. & Lampre, F. 1994. Los glaciares Altoaragoneses. Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 32 pp., Huesca. Chueca, J., Julián, A., Saz, M.A., Creus J. & López-Moreno, J.I., 2005. Responses to climatic changes since the Little Ice Age on Maladeta Glacier (Central Pyrenees). Geomorphology, 68: 167–82. González Trueba J.J., Martín Moreno R., Martínez de Pisón, E. & Serrano, E., 2008. 'Little Ice Age' glaciation and current glaciers in the Iberian Peninsula. The Holocene, 18(4): 551–568. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608089209 Grove, J.M., 2004. Little Ice Ages: ancient and modern. Vol. I and II. Methuen, 715 pp., London. Grunewald, K. & Scheithauer, J., 2010. Europe's 2010 southernmost glaciers: response and adaptation to climate change. Journal of Glaciology, 56 (195): 129-142. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214310791190947 Huss, M. & Fischer, M., 2016. Sensitivity of Very Small Glaciers in the Swiss Alps to Future Climate Change. Frontiers in Earth Science, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00034 IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, 151 pp., Geneva, Switzerland. López-Moreno, J.I., Nogués-Bravo, D., Chueca-Cía, J. & Julián-Andrés, J., 2006, Change of topographic control on the extent of cirque glaciers since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L24505. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028204 López-Moreno, J.I., Revuelto, J., Rico, I., Chueca-Cía, J., Julián, A., Serreta, A., Serrano, E., Vicente Serrano, S.M., Azorín-Molina, C., Alonso-González, E. & García-Ruiz, J.M., 2016. Thinning of the Monte Perdido Glacier in the Spanish Pyrenees since 1981. The Cryosphere, 10(2): 681–694. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-681-2016 Marshall, S., 2014. Glacier retreat crosses a line. Science, 345(6199), 872. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258584 PMid:25146269 Marti, R., Gascoin, S., Houet, T., Ribière, O., Laffly, D., Condom, T. & René, P., 2015a. Evolution of Ossoue Glacier (French Pyrenees) since the end of the Little Ice Age. The Cryosphere, 9(5): 1773–1795. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1773-2015 Marti, R., Gascoin, S., Houet, T., Laffly, D. & René, P., 2015b. Les glaciers des Pyrénées en 1850 et 2011: un inventaire transfrontalier à partir d'images aériennes et d'observations in situ. Un retrait sans équivoque vers les plus hautes parties des cirques englacés. Poster, 26th IUGG General Assembly, Jun 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. Martínez de Pisón, E. & Arenillas, M., 1988. Los glaciares actuales del Pirineo español. En: La nieve en el Pirineo Español. MOPU. Servicio de Publicaciones: 29–98 pp., Madrid. René, P., 2013. Le réchauffement climatique en images, Ed. Cairn, 167 pp., Pau. René, P., 2016. Les glaciers des Pyrénées francaises: Cycle glaciaire 2015-16. Association Moraine. Rico, I., Serrano, E., San José, J.J. & Del Río, M., 2016. Responses to Climatic Changes since the Little Ice Age on La Paul Glacier (Central Pyrenees). Krei, 13: 105-116. http://hdl.handle.net/10810/18801. Rico, I., Serrano, E., Del Río, M., Sanjosé, J.J. & Tejado Ramos, J.J., 2012. Estructura y dinámica actual del glaciar de La Paul (Pirineos): Aplicación de Laser Escaner y Georadar. En: Avances de Geomorfología en España 2010-2012. SEG-Universidad de Cantabria: 235-238 pp., Santander. Rico, I., Serrano, E., López Moreno, J.I., Revuelto, J., Atkinson, A. & De San José, J.J., 2014. El glaciar de la Maladeta (Pirineos): Evolución del frente y variabilidad ambiental (2010-2013). XIII Reunión Nacional de Geomorfología: 535–538 pp., Cáceres. Schrader, F., 1936. Sur l'étendue des glaciers des Pyrenees 1894. Pyrénées, 201–221, Toulouse. Serrano, E., Agudo, C. & González Trueba, J.J., 2002. La deglaciación de la alta monta-a. Morfología, evolución y fases morfogenéticas glaciares en el macizo del Posets (Pirineo aragonés). Cuaternario y Geomorfología, 16 (1-4): 111-126. http://hdl.handle.net/10902/2681. Serrat, D. & Ventura, J., 1993. Glaciers of the Pyrenees, Spain and France. Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. E49–E61. Tihay, J.P., 1992. Le cirque de Garvarnie et ses glaciers. Images d'une disaparition annocé. Pyrénées, 2-3: 175-185, Toulouse. Williams, R., Hall, D., Sigurdsson, O. & Chien, Y., 1997. Comparison of satellite-derived with ground based measurements of the fluctuations of the margins of Vatnajökull, Iceland, 1973–92. Annals of Glaciology, 24: 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260305500011964 WGMS, World Glacier Monitoring Service, 2008. Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures, 88. Retrieved from http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/. Zemp, M., Frey, H., Gärtner-Roer, I., Nussbaumer, S.U., Hoelzle, M., Paul, F., Haeberli, W., Denzinger, F., Ahlstroem, A.P., Anderson, B., Bajracharya, S., Baroni, C., Braun, L.N., Caceres, B.E., Casassa, G., Cobos, G., Davila, L.R., Delgado Granados, H., Demuth, M.N., Espizua, L., Fischer, A., Fujita, K., Gadek, B., Ghazanfar, A., Hagen, J.O., Holmlund, P., Karimi, N., Li, Z., Pelto, M., Pitte, P., Popovnin, V.V., Portocarrero, C.A., Prinz, R., Sangewar, C.V., Severskiy, I., Sigurdsson, O., Soruco, A., Usubaliev, R. & Vincent, C., 2015. Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century. Journal of Glaciology, 61(228): 745-762. https://doi.org/10.3189/2015JoG15J017 https://pirineos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/pirineos/article/view/281 doi:10.3989/Pirineos.2017.172004 Derechos de autor 2017 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Pirineos; Vol. 172 (2017); e029 1988-4281 0373-2568 10.3989/pirineos.2017.v172 Glacier Area Pyrenees Global Change Superficie Glaciar Pirineos Cambio Global info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftjpirineos https://doi.org/10.3989/Pirineos.2017.172004 https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2017.v172 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258584 2022-02-22T15:47:42Z Glacier area studies in the Pyrenees reported over 2000 ha in 1850, 806.5 ha in the 1980s and 310.33 ha in 2008. In this work we carried out an updated (2016) estimation of the current glacier area of the Pyrenees, based on remote sensing and contrasted with in-situ observations of the most representative glaciers. Our results yield a glacier area of 242.06 ha for 2016. This implies a reduction of 88.25 % since 1850, and a rapid wastage since 1980s, confirming the accelerated shrinkage during the end of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Los estudios de superficie glaciar en los Pirineos han informado de más de 2000 ha en 1850, 806,5 ha en la década de 1980 y 310,33 ha en 2008. En este trabajo hemos llevado a cabo una estimación actualizada (2016) de la superficie de los glaciares actuales en los Pirineos, a partir de imágenes satelitales contrastadas con observaciones “in situ” de los glaciares más representativos. Nuestros resultados dan una superficie glaciar de 242,06 ha para el año 2016. Esto implica una reducción del 88,25% desde 1850 y una rápida disminución desde la década de 1980, lo que confirma el acelerado declive durante el final del siglo XX y la primera década del siglo XXI. Article in Journal/Newspaper Annals of Glaciology Journal of Glaciology The Cryosphere Pirineos (E-Journal) Anuário do Instituto de Geociências 43 4 |