State of balance of the cryosphere
This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784. The current state of balance of the terrestrial ice sheets and glaciers is poorly known. What little data are available suggest that, worldwide, mountain glaciers have receded since about the mid-nineteenth cent...
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ftunivkansas:oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/17346 2023-05-15T13:32:09+02:00 State of balance of the cryosphere van der Veen, Cornelis J. 2015-04-08T20:28:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17346 https://doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784 unknown American Geophysical Union Van Der Veen, C. J. "State of balance of the cryosphere." Reviews of Geophysics. Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 433–455, August 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17346 doi:10.1029/91RG00784 openAccess Article 2015 ftunivkansas https://doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784 2022-08-26T13:16:46Z This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784. The current state of balance of the terrestrial ice sheets and glaciers is poorly known. What little data are available suggest that, worldwide, mountain glaciers have receded since about the mid-nineteenth century, with occasional interruptions of the retreat. The interior part of the Greenland ice sheet appears to be thickening or in near equilibrium, but this ice sheet may be thinning in the coastal areas. Estimates of the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet suggest that it is positive, although the error limits allow for a slightly negative balance. There is an urgent need to greatly improve the current estimates and to monitor the ice sheets continuously for changes in volume and extent. A program based on satellite observation techniques, in cooperation with ground-based surveys repeated over long time periods (many years or decades), appears to be most opportune to achieve this. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Ice Sheet The Cryosphere The University of Kansas: KU ScholarWorks Antarctic Greenland The Antarctic Reviews of Geophysics 29 3 433 |
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This is the published version, also available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/91RG00784. The current state of balance of the terrestrial ice sheets and glaciers is poorly known. What little data are available suggest that, worldwide, mountain glaciers have receded since about the mid-nineteenth century, with occasional interruptions of the retreat. The interior part of the Greenland ice sheet appears to be thickening or in near equilibrium, but this ice sheet may be thinning in the coastal areas. Estimates of the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet suggest that it is positive, although the error limits allow for a slightly negative balance. There is an urgent need to greatly improve the current estimates and to monitor the ice sheets continuously for changes in volume and extent. A program based on satellite observation techniques, in cooperation with ground-based surveys repeated over long time periods (many years or decades), appears to be most opportune to achieve this. |
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