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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2383-2021
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Research article
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21 May 2021
Research article |
| 21 May 2021
| 21 May 2021
Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe
Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, 400006, Romania
Stable Isotope Laboratory, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, 720229, Romania
Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, 400022, Romania
Nenad Buzjak
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia
Alexandru Onaca
Department of Geography, West University, Timişoara, 300223, Romania
Christos Pennos
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway
Yorgos Sotiriadis
Department of Geography, Aegean University, Mytilene, 81100, Greece
Monica Ionita
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, 27515, Germany
Stavros Zachariadis
Department of History and Archeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54636, Greece
Michael Styllas
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
Jure Kosutnik
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, 5000, Slovenia
Alexandru Hegyi
Department of Geography, West University, Timişoara, 300223, Romania
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus
Valerija Butorac
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia
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- Methodological approaches to survey complex ice cave environments - the case of Dobšiná (Slovakia) K. Pukanská et al. 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1484169
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Latest update: 19 Jun 2025
Short summary
Extreme precipitation events in summer 2019 led to catastrophic loss of cave and surface ice in SE Europe at levels unprecedented during the last century. The projected continuous warming and increase in precipitation extremes could pose an additional threat to glaciers in southern Europe, resulting in a potentially ice-free SE Europe by the middle of the next decade (2035 CE).
Extreme precipitation events in summer 2019 led to catastrophic loss of cave and surface ice in...
