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The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database

1 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
2 Victoria University of Wellington
3 University of Central Punjab
4 Universidad Veracruzana
5 Lincoln University [Nouvelle-Zélande]
6 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
7 Universidad de los Lagos (Chile)
8 Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University
9 RiverLy - RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes
10 IDEAM - Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales
11 SFU.ca - Simon Fraser University = Université Simon Fraser
12 Autoridad Nacional del Agua
13 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
14 EDYTEM - Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne
15 Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research [Lincoln]
16 National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic
17 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
18 LECA - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine
19 MUSE – Science Museum of Trento
20 NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
21 NMK - National Museums of Kenya
22 UNIANDES - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
23 UNIPV - Università degli Studi di Pavia [Italia] = University of Pavia [Italy] = Université de Pavie [Italie]
24 JNU - Jawaharlal Nehru University
25 National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic
26 UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio
27 IMDE - Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment
28 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
29 IGE - Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
Levan Tielidze
Pritam Chand
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Katrin Sieron
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Andre Eger
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Ludovic Gielly
Mauro Gobbi
Sigmund Hågvar
Rahab Kinyanjui
Gwendolyn Peyre
Yan Yang
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Anaïs Zimmer
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Most of the world’s mountain glaciers have been retreating for more than a century in response to climate change. Glacier retreat is evident on all continents, and the rate of retreat has accelerated during recent decades. Accurate, spatially explicit information on the position of glacier margins over time is useful for analyzing patterns of glacier retreat and measuring reductions in glacier surface area. This information is also essential for evaluating how mountain ecosystems are evolving due to climate warming and the attendant glacier retreat. Here, we present a non-comprehensive spatially explicit dataset showing multiple positions of glacier fronts since the Little Ice Age (LIA) maxima, including many data from the pre-satellite era. The dataset is based on multiple historical archival records including topographical maps; repeated photographs, paintings, and aerial or satellite images with a supplement of geochronology; and own field data. We provide ESRI shapefiles showing 728 past positions of 94 glacier fronts from all continents, except Antarctica, covering the period between the Little Ice Age maxima and the present. On average, the time series span the past 190 years. From 2 to 46 past positions per glacier are depicted (on average: 7.8)
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hal-03377264 , version 1 (14-10-2021)

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Silvio Marta, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Davide Fugazza, Levan Tielidze, Pritam Chand, et al.. The Retreat of Mountain Glaciers since the Little Ice Age: A Spatially Explicit Database. Data, 2021, 6 (10), pp.107. ⟨10.3390/data6100107⟩. ⟨hal-03377264⟩
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