The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database

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Fabien Anthelme¹  Levan Tielidze²  Olivier Dangles³  Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié⁴  Milap Chand Sharma⁵  Marco Aurelio Morales-Martínez⁶  Katrin Sieron⁶  Pablo Alviz Gazitúa⁷  Gwendolyn Peyre⁸  John Clague⁹  Andrea Franzetti^1,10  Francesca Pittino^1,10  Roberto Seppi^1,11  Sigmund Hågvar^1,12  Anaïs Zimmer^1,13  Pritam Chand^1,14  Rakesh Bhambri^1,15  Blake Weissling^1,16  Peter Almond^1,17  Marco Caccianiga^1,18  Davide Fugazza^1,19  Aurélie Bonin^1,19  Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti^1,19  Roberto Sergio Azzoni^1,19  Gentile Francesco Ficetola^1,19  Roberto Ambrosini^1,19  Silvio Marta^1,19  Fabrizio Gili^1,19  Alessia Guerrieri^1,19  Yan Yang^2,20  Sergey Erokhin^2,21  Nurai Urseitova^2,21  Vitalii Zaginaev^2,21  Jorge Luis Ceballos Lievano^2,22  Ludovic Gielly^2,23  Andre Eger^2,24  Rahab Kinyanjui^2,25  Mauro Gobbi^2,26  Antoine Rabatel^2,27  Norine Khedim^2,28  Erwan Messager^2,28  Jerome Poulenard^2,28  Philip Deline^2,28  Justiniano Alejo Cochachín Rapre^2,29  Rolando Cruz Encarnación^2,29 

[1] AMAP, University of Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, 34090 Montpellier, France;Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand;CEFE, University Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, 34199 Montpellier, France;Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, UR RIVERLY, INRAE, 69625 Villeurbanne, France;Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110067, India;Centro de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz C.P. 91090, Mexico;Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Biodiversidad, Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno 5290000, Chile;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of the Andes, Bogotá 111711, Colombia;Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT), University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy;Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy;Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Universitetstunet 3, 1433 Ås, Norway;Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA;Department of Geography, School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Central University of Punjab, VPO-Ghudda, Bathinda 151401, Punjab, India;Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Voßstraße 2/4130, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas-San Antonio, Flawn Science Building (FLN), San Antonio, TX 78249, USA;Department of Soil and Physical Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand;Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milano, Italy;Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China;Institute of Water Problems and Hydro-Energy, Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences, Frunze 533, Bishkek 720033, Kyrgyzstan;Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales IDEAM, Bogotá CP 110911, Colombia;Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine, University Grenoble Alpes, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, 38610 Grenoble, France;Mannaki Whenua—Landcare Research, Soils and Landscapes, 54 Gerald St, Lincoln 7608, New Zealand;Palynology and Paleobotany Section, Earth Sciences Department, National Museums of Kenya, P.O. Box 40568, Nairobi 00100, Kenya;Section of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, MUSE-Science Museum, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza, 3, 38122 Trento, Italy;University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble-INP, Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE, UMR 5001), 38000 Grenoble, France;Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, EDYTEM, 73000 Chambéry, France;Área de Evaluación de Glaciares y Lagunas, Autoridad Nacional del Agua, Huaraz 02002, Peru;

关键词: glacier retreat;    climate change;    little ice age;    pre-satellite era;    global scale;   

DOI  :  10.3390/data6100107

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Most of the world’s mountain glaciers have been retreating for more than a century in response to climate change. Glacier retreat is evident on all continents, and the rate of retreat has accelerated during recent decades. Accurate, spatially explicit information on the position of glacier margins over time is useful for analyzing patterns of glacier retreat and measuring reductions in glacier surface area. This information is also essential for evaluating how mountain ecosystems are evolving due to climate warming and the attendant glacier retreat. Here, we present a non-comprehensive spatially explicit dataset showing multiple positions of glacier fronts since the Little Ice Age (LIA) maxima, including many data from the pre-satellite era. The dataset is based on multiple historical archival records including topographical maps; repeated photographs, paintings, and aerial or satellite images with a supplement of geochronology; and own field data. We provide ESRI shapefiles showing 728 past positions of 94 glacier fronts from all continents, except Antarctica, covering the period between the Little Ice Age maxima and the present. On average, the time series span the past 190 years. From 2 to 46 past positions per glacier are depicted (on average: 7.8).

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