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Annals of Glaciology
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ISSN 0260-3055 · Cambridge University Press · 509 articles in the index
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Disappearing glaciers of the Oregon Cascades, USA
The Oregon Cascades had 35 named glaciers on seven volcanoes in the 1980s, with 34 of those glaciers remaining by 2000. Here, we document the glaciers that fall into the Global Glacier Casualty List categories based on five years of field observations of these 34 glaciers. Five glaciers have…
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Snowmelt onset in the Arctic: Insights from a thermodynamic sea ice model, ice mass balance buoys, and passive microwave remote sensing
The timing of snowmelt onset (SMO) is a critical climate indicator in the Arctic. However, spaceborne, in-situ measurements, and model simulations yield different estimates for the timing. Understanding these discrepancies is essential for identifying the physical mechanisms driving SMO. In this…
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The archaeology of glaciers and ice patches: The intersection of climate change, glacier retreat and cultural heritage
The archaeology of glaciers and ice patches has developed as a distinct new field in response to climate change and the melting of mountain ice. Thousands of artefacts and biological materials, dating back up to 10 000 years are being released from melting ice patches and retreating glaciers…
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From Snowferner to no ferner: The deglaciation of Zugspitzplatt
The Zugspitzplatt represents a key high-alpine reference landscape in German geography. Located below the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, it still hosts some of the country’s small remaining glacier ice reserves. Owing to its long history of scientific observation, high accessibility, and…
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The Sun is setting for the historic Sunlight Glacier, Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming, USA
An alpine glacier below Sunlight Peak in northwest Wyoming was first photographically documented in 1893, near the end of the Little Ice Age and during the time of industrialization. Since then, evolving technologies have been applied to observe this glacier and nearby discontinuous permafrost for…
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Vanishing ice patches and archaeological potential?
Melting alpine ice threatens (pre)historic archaeological sites. Current trends suggest loss of ice will continue. Here, we present recent fluctuations in yearly minimum extent from 2017 to 2024 for three central Norwegian ice patches: Storhornet, Elghøa and Lågtangan. We discuss how melting ice…
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Mourning the death of glaciers: Alpinists’ relationships with these more-than-human entities
More than just shrinking ice, glaciers are more-than-human entities that have relationships with people, affecting and influencing their behaviour. This paper focuses on the relationship between glaciers and alpinists, a community that experiences their retreat in an intimate and embodied way…
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Vanishing of the Glacier Yanamarey, one of the four glaciers with in situ measurements in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
The Tropical Andes stand out as one of the mountain regions most affected by global warming. Here, we present a synthesis of recent glacier evolution in the Cordillera Blanca, based on the glaciers that have been monitored with in situ glaciological measurements over the past decades. In…
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Mapping vanishing glaciers in Vorarlberg, Austria
We assess ongoing regional glacier loss in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg using a set of manually mapped glacier outlines for 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Vorarlberg has lost about half of its glacierized area since a previous inventory in the mid-2000s. In 2017–23, glacier area was lost at an…
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Basal icequakes and sticky spots: Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, near the grounding line
We located over one million icequakes that occurred during a 23 day period up-glacier of the grounding line of Rutford Ice Stream (RIS), West Antarctica. To investigate basal conditions and better understand the sliding process, we focused on sticky spots, spatially constrained clusters of…
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Vanishing of very small glacierets throughout the Northern and Central Andes of Chile
Small glaciers (less than 0.5 km 2 ${ \lt }0.5\,\mathrm{km}^2$
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On the demise of Whistler, Horstman and Blackcomb Glaciers, southwest British Columbia, Canada: historical use, recent change and future prospects within a mountain resort
Atmospheric warming is causing glaciers worldwide to retreat and disappear, with repercussions for nearby communities. Effects of glacier retreat have been especially consequential for mountain resorts such as Whistler Blackcomb, Canada, where nearly 60 years of summer glacier use by skiing has…
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Vanishing small glaciers in the Cordillera Real, Bolivia (1998–2024)
Tropical glaciers in the Cordillera Real (Bolivia) are rapidly retreating. In the early 2000s, it was predicted that many of its small glaciers (
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Surface expression of low basal friction upstream of Antarctic grounding lines
Ice sheets leave contact with the bed at grounding lines, beyond which floating ice shelves experience no friction at their base. In places where basal friction begins to decrease upstream of the grounding line, ice sheets respond more strongly to climate forcing. However, the spatial extent of…
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When has a glacier disappeared?
Disappearing glaciers are observed worldwide, but a reliable counting is only available for some regions. This is due to several issues, ranging from inconsistent glacier identification to different criteria applied to decide whether or not a glacier has disappeared. The public perception of a…
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Modularised multi-process drilling system for subglacial bedrock sampling beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
This study developed a multi-process drilling system (MPDS) to extract 10 m subglacial bedrock samples beneath a 1000 m-thick region of the Antarctic ice sheet. The MPDS is made of five primary subsystems: drill rig, drill-rod module, air system, drilling fluid circulation system and generator…
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Vanishing and vanished glaciers. Introduction to the Annals of Glaciology Collection
We summarize and reflect on the nearly 30 studies that form this Collection on Vanishing Glaciers as a contribution to the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Some of the studies in this Collection are extensions of the stories told in the Global Glacier Casualty List, a…