The Greater Caucasus Glacier Inventory (Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan)

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Tielidze, Levan G., Wheate, Roger D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; New Glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-81-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00007616; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00007573/tc-12-81-2018.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/81/2018/tc-12-81-2018.pdf

There have been numerous studies of glaciers in the Greater Caucasus, but none that have generated a modern glacier database across the whole mountain range. Here, we present an updated and expanded glacier inventory at three time periods (1960, 1986, 2014) covering the entire Greater Caucasus. Larg...