Yan Zhong
@glacialyan
PhD Candidate @unige_en specializing in #HighMountainAsia #Glaciers #MountainHazards #RiskManagement #RockIceAvalanches #Hydropower #RS #GIS. Feminist
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Thanks to a recent innovative way of processing data from ESA's CryoSat mission, scientists have discovered that glaciers lost 2720 Gigatonnes of ice between 2010 and 2020, 2% of their total volume and it’s because of higher air temperatures: esa.int/Applications/O…
What have you done over the last 5 yrs (Sept, 2018-July, 2023)? Sadly my fav glacier (Klinaklini) has lost 5 Gt of water. 😪Cloudy shots omitted. B. Floyd VIU University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) Hakai Institute met station.
#Glaciers visualize #climate change - And they win the 2023 "Climate Journalism Award" by European Journalism Centre Wow! Happy this project bringing together journalists and scientists made it interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2022/gletscher… It illustrates the impact of policy-decisions on glaciers Marc Brupbacher Mathias Lutz
Remember Rhône glacier viral post? 👇 Comments below this tweet (viewed 4.6 M times!) reflect the abysmal level of ecological awareness on Twitter This is how Mer de Glace behaved during almost the same 15yr interval (2007-2022): ~80 m thinning at 1800 m asl! EarthBreath