PCIC science brief: The accelerated loss of Western Canadian glaciers
Date
2022-04
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Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
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Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
Abstract
As a consequence of global warming, the world's glaciers have been shrinking. Changes to glaciers in BC could have wide-ranging impacts to BC's ecosystems and human communities, across multiple sectors. Remote sensing data has been invaluable in measuring and characterizing changes to the world's glaciers. Recent research published in Remote Sensing of the Environment using such data shows that western Canadian glaciers have been melting at an accelerating rate and examines how this is related to changes in seasonal temperature and precipitation. Here we discuss what these results tell us about changes to western Canada's glaciers.
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UN SDG 13: Climate Action, #science brief, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)