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Volume 21 Issue 2
Apr 2010
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Journal of Earth Science  > 2010  >  21(2): 179-188.
Hongxi Pang, Yuanqing He, Ningning Zhang, Zongxing Li, Wilfred H Theakstone. Observed Glaciohydrological Changes in China’s Typical Monsoonal Temperate Glacier Region since 1980s. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(2): 179-188. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0016-1
Citation: Hongxi Pang, Yuanqing He, Ningning Zhang, Zongxing Li, Wilfred H Theakstone. Observed Glaciohydrological Changes in China’s Typical Monsoonal Temperate Glacier Region since 1980s. Journal of Earth Science, 2010, 21(2): 179-188. doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0016-1
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Observed Glaciohydrological Changes in China’s Typical Monsoonal Temperate Glacier Region since 1980s

doi: 10.1007/s12583-010-0016-1
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    Key Laboratory for Coast and Island Development of Ministry of Education, School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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    State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

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    State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Yulong Snow Mountain Glacial and Environmental Observation Station, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

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    Institute of Environment and Climate Change Research in Western China, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

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    Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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    School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

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the West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences O828A11001

the Orientation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences KZCXZ-YW-317

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 08R214147

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 20080440641

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  • Corresponding author: Pang Hongxi, hxpang@nju.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 30 Oct 2009
  • Accepted Date: 08 Jan 2010
  • Publish Date: 01 Apr 2010
    Abstract
  • Under the background of significant climate warming since the 1980s, the glaciers in China's monsoonal temperate glacier region respond to the warming intensely. Based on the glaciohydrological observations at some typical glaciers from Mts. Yulong (玉龙) and Gongga (贡嘎) of Hengduan (横断) Mountains Range in the southeastern Tibetan plateau, the glaciohydrological changes in the temperate glacier region since the 1980s were investigated. First, the glacier terminus exhibited an accelerating retreat. Second, as the glacier area subject to melting has increased and the ablation season has become longer due to the warming, the ablation of glacier enhanced, leading to increasing contribution of meltwater to annual river discharge. Third, surface topography of small temperate glacier may be changed significantly by crevasses and ruptures developed in the accumulation zone and ice collapse events in the ablation zone. The observed results may indicate a signal that the survival of glaciers in China's monsoonal temperate glacier region is being threatened by today's climate warming.

     

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