Recession of Indonesia’s tropical glaciers; implications?

• Main Author: McCallum, A B
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: University of the Sunshine Coast 2012
• Subjects: FoR 0406 (Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience); tropical glaciers; climate change; Indonesia; Arctic; Jaya; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.usc.edu.au/research/university-research-week

Climate change is influencing many components of the earth’s natural systems, yet perhaps none more so than the cryosphere. Whilst the Arctic has long been regarded as the ‘canary’ of climate change, other ice masses are also experiencing change. Low-latitudinal tropical glaciers in Africa, the Ande...