Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-713-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-713-2016
Research article
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21 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 21 Mar 2016

Glacier change over the last century, Caucasus Mountains, Georgia, observed from old topographical maps, Landsat and ASTER satellite imagery

Levan G. Tielidze

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This article presents the percentage and quantitative changes in the number and area of glaciers for all Georgian Caucasus in the years 1911–1960–2014, by individual river basins, by comparing recent Landsat and ASTER images (2014) with older topographical maps (1911, 1960) along with middle and high mountain meteorological stations data.
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