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Glacier change and behaviour: Hazardously erratic, climatically regular. Eastern Central Caucasus Mountains, Russia, 1971-1999 / Tiffany Lunday.
Title: | Glacier change and behaviour: Hazardously erratic, climatically regular. Eastern Central Caucasus Mountains, Russia, 1971-1999 / Tiffany Lunday. |
Author(s): | Lunday, Tiffany. |
Date: | 2007. |
Abstract: | Examines behaviour of region's glaciers over period 1971-1999 using photographs and digital images from CORONA and LANDSAT satellites and climate data. Describes image registration and classification to identify snow and cloud, and measurement of snow area and terminus changes for 15 glaciers. Identifies terminus retreat in all but one glacier and overall reduction in glacier ice. Observes high interannual variability in climate, with no significant trend to which to attribute glacier retreat. Examines detailed mass balance data for Djankuat glacier and discusses possibility that Caucasus glacier changes reflect longer term climate trends. Discusses variations in changes between glaciers and compares with trends observed in Alps. |
Notes: | Dissertation submitted for degree of Master of Philosophy in Polar Studies, University of Cambridge. |
Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.22 -- Glaciers: Djankuat. 551.324.63 -- Land ice, advance and retreat. 551.324.43 -- Land ice, regime and mass balance. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.582 -- Climatology of particular places. 551.583.2 -- Climatic changes, historic. 551.588.5 -- Climate, relationship with ice. 528.9 -- Cartography. 531.72 -- Calculation of land area. 528.93 -- Cartography, topographical. 53.087.23 -- Remote sensing. 629.783 -- Satellites. 043(B) -- Theses: M.Phil. .000(410) -- British author. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (234.9) -- Caucasus Mountains. (234.3) -- Alps. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-THE: 2007[Lun] |
SPRI record no.: | 182657 |
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