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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1809-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1809-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Research article
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22 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 22 Aug 2016

Rapid glacial retreat on the Kamchatka Peninsula during the early 21st century

Colleen M. Lynch, Iestyn D. Barr, Donal Mullan, and Alastair Ruffell

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Early 21st century changes in the extent of glaciers on Kamchatka were manually mapped from satellite imagery. This revealed 673 glaciers, with a total surface area of 775.7 ± 27.9 km2 in 2000, and 738 glaciers, with a total area of 592.9 ± 20.4 km2 in 2014. This ~24 % decline in glacier surface area is considered to reflect variations in climate (particularly rising summer temperatures), though the response of individual glaciers was likely modulated by other (non-climatic) factors.
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