The Adamello-Presanella Group (Rhaetian Alps): a key site for understanding recent glaciers variations

• Main Authors: BARONI, CARLO, SALVATORE, MARIA CRISTINA, Carton A.
• Other Authors: Comitato Glaciologico Italiano, Baroni, Carlo, Carton, A., Salvatore, MARIA CRISTINA
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Comitato Glaciologico Italiano 2014
• Subjects: Adamello - Presanella; Climate change; Glacial variation; Little Ice Age; Rhaetian Alps; Ela; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/640470; https://doi.org/10.4461/GFDQ.2014.37.15; http://www.glaciologia.it/

The Alps are a sensitive environment towards the ongoing climate changes, to which they are reacting with variations in the extension of glaciers and permafrost and with an increasing in the frequency and magnitude of mass-wasting processes. The Alps have been referred in the Mountain Agenda as the...