PCIC science brief: On changes to glaciers in Western Canada

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dc.contributor.authorPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-17T21:30:32Z
dc.date.available2025-03-17T21:30:32Z
dc.date.issued2016-03
dc.description.abstractThe new Science Brief covers two recent papers by Beedle et al. (2015) and Clarke et al. (2015) on changes to glaciers in western Canada. Publishing in the journal The Cryosphere, Beedle et al. use photographic methods to quantify changes to 33 glaciers in the Cariboo Mountains. They find that all of the glaciers receded over the 1952-2005 period with an average loss in surface area of about 0.19% per year. Clarke et al.'s work is published in Nature Geoscience and uses a regional glaciation model driven by global climate model output to examine possible future changes to glaciers in western Canada. Their projections show a reduction of between 70% to 95% in both glacier area and volume by the year 2100 compared to 2005.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21540
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.subjectUN SDG 13: Climate Action
dc.subject#science brief
dc.subjectPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.titlePCIC science brief: On changes to glaciers in Western Canada
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