Belvedere glacier. Monte Rosa, Italian Alps : tongue thickness and volume variations in the second half of the 20th century

• Main Authors: G. Diolaiuti, C. D'Agata, C. Smiraglia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Colorado 2003
• Subjects: Settore GEO/04 - Geografia Fisica e Geomorfologia; Monte Rosa; Belvedere; Antarctic and Alpine Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/14815; https://doi.org/10.1657/1523-0430(2003)035[0255:BGMRIA]2.0.CO;2

In studying the response of alpine glaciers to climate warming, the study of debris-covered glaciers is important in order to demonstrate that a negative feedback exists in the temperature-ablation relationship that is introduced by the increase in debris cover. In this paper, variations in the Belv...