Strong acceleration of glacier area loss in the Greater Caucasus between 2000 and 2020

• Main Authors: Tielidze, Levan G, Nosenko, Gennady A, Khromova, Tatiana E, Paul, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; Earth-Surface Processes; Water Science and Technology; New Glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/231119/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/231119/1/ZORA_tc_16_489_2022.pdf

An updated glacier inventory is important for understanding glacier behaviour given the accelerating glacier retreat observed around the world. Here, we present data from a new glacier inventory for two points in time (2000, 2020) covering the entire Greater Caucasus (Georgia, Russia, and Azerbaijan...