Superficie glaciar actual en los Pirineos: Una actualización para 2016

Ibai Rico; Eñaut Izagirre; Enrique Serrano; Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

doi:10.3989/Pirineos.2017.172004

Authors

Ibai Rico Dept. of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, University of the Basque Country - Dept. of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4615-0488
Eñaut Izagirre Dirección de Programas Antárticos y Subantárticos, Universidad de Magallanes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8502-7824
Enrique Serrano Dept. of Geography, University of Valladolid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9760-3876
Juan Ignacio López-Moreno Dept. of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-9313

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/Pirineos.2017.172004

Keywords:

Glacier Area, Pyrenees, Global Change

Abstract

Glacier area studies in the Pyrenees reported over 2000 ha in 1850, 806.5 ha in the 1980s and 310.33 ha in 2008. In this work we carried out an updated (2016) estimation of the current glacier area of the Pyrenees, based on remote sensing and contrasted with in-situ observations of the most representative glaciers. Our results yield a glacier area of 242.06 ha for 2016. This implies a reduction of 88.25 % since 1850, and a rapid wastage since 1980s, confirming the accelerated shrinkage during the end of the 20^th century and the first decade of the 21^st century.

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