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July 12, 2012
Alpine Glaciers BAMS State of the Climate in 2011
Below is the section I wrote on Alpine Glaciers for the BAMS State of the Climate in 2011 published on July, 10, 2012. The focus is on glacier changes in 2011. 3) ALPINE GLACIERS—M. S. Pelto The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) record of mass balance and terminus behavior (WGMS 2011) provides a global index for alpine glacier behavior. Mass balance was -766 mm in 2010, negative for the 20th …
Dean of Academic Affairs at Nichols College and Professor of Environmental Science at Nichols College in Massachusetts since 1989. Glaciologist directing the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project since 1984. This project monitors the mass balance and behavior of more glaciers than any other in North America.