SwissGlaciers.org: Journal

Numerous articles in the media deal directly or indirectly with glaciers and/or the consequences of climate change. Each of these articles is a piece in a mosaic that threatens to disappear in today's mass of information. On this page we try to arrange these mosaic stones a bit. All articles are accessible via external links and were not written by us.

Thema: Alle |

17.05.2025: Swiss Glacier Bulletin 2024
Das erste «Swiss Glacier Bulletin» von GLAMOS, welches interessante Informationen über das Gletscherjahr 2023/24 enthält.
Quelle: GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland) Autoren: Matthias Huss, Andreas Bauder, Elias Hodel, Andreas Linsbauer

30.09.2022: Swiss glaciers shed more ice than ever before in 2022. Europe's rivers will feel the loss
The past year was catastrophic for Swiss glaciers. According to glaciologists, the country's glaciers shrank by more than 6%, surpassing the previous record set in 2003. An overview with graphics.
Quelle: Neue Zürcher Zeitung

18.03.2021: Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019
Quelle: The Cryosphere

29.01.2021: The Consequences of Glacier Retreat Are Uneven Between Plant Species
Quelle: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

16.10.2020: Glaciers are retreating unabated
The volume of Swiss glaciers continues to decline in summer 2020. Although it is not an extreme year, the decline remains significant and is drastically changing the image of the Alps.
Quelle: Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)

12.04.2019: Fibre optics as an earthquake sensor
ETH experts in earth sciences and engineering geology have tested out a new method on the Rhone glacier that will allow detailed examination of the interior of the glacier and its movement. The effectiveness of this new technique was better than expected.
Quelle: ETH Zurich Autoren: Peter Rüegg

09.04.2019: The oldest ice on Earth may be able to solve the puzzle of the planet’s climate history
A European research consortium, in which the University of Bern is involved in, wants to drill a 1.5 million year old ice core in Antarctica. An analysis of the climate data stored in the ice should contribute to a better understanding of the alternation between warm and cold periods.
Quelle: University of Berne

09.04.2019: More than 90% of glacier volume in the Alps could be lost by 2100
New research on how glaciers in the European Alps will fare under a warming climate has come up with concerning results. Under a limited warming scenario, glaciers would lose about two-thirds of their present-day ice volume, while under strong warming, the Alps would be mostly ice free by 2100. The results,now published in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal The Cryosphere, arepresented today(9 April) at theEGUGeneral Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria.
Quelle: European Geosinces Union

04.04.2019: Rock and snow avalanche at Flüela Wisshorn
A large rock avalanche occurred shortly after midnight on March 19 2019 on Flüela Wisshorn. This then triggered a snow avalanche. SLF measurements now reveal that over a quarter of a million cubic metres of rock collapsed.
Quelle: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

12.02.2019: Ice volume of glaciers worldwide calculated anew
Researchers have provided a new estimate for the glacier ice volume all around the world, excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Their conclusion: previous calculations overestimated the volume of the glaciers in High Mountain Asia.
Quelle: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

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