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Record #181163:
Glaciers and ice caps / Michael Zemp, Wilfried Haeberli.
Title: | Glaciers and ice caps / Michael Zemp, Wilfried Haeberli. |
Author(s): | Zemp, Michael. Haeberli, Wilfried. |
Date: | 2007. |
Publisher: | Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme |
In: | Global outlook for ice and snow. (2007.), |
Abstract: | Considers glaciers as important indicators of global climate. Notes that glaciers have been shrinking dramatically since end of Little Ice Age, with increasing rates of ice loss since mid-1980s. Discusses implications of glacial retreat and permafrost melting (natural hazards and changes to seasonal availability of fresh water) |
Notes: | In: Global outlook for ice and snow / United Nations Environment Programme. |
Keywords: | IPY07-08E -- IPY 2007-08 Education, outreach and communication publications. 502 -- Environmental issues. 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.24 -- Ice sheets and caps. 551.324.63 -- Land ice, advance and retreat. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. 551.583.2 -- Climatic changes, historic. 551.588.5 -- Climate, relationship with ice. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. |
SPRI record no.: | 181163 |
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