ANNUAL GLACIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ITALIAN GLACIERS (2021) CAMPAGNA GLACIOLOGICA ANNUALE DEI GHIACCIAI ITALIANI (2021)

Baroni C., Bondesan A., Carturan L., Chiarle M. & Scotti R., Annual glaciological survey of Italian glaciers (2021). (IT ISSN 0391-9838, 2022).The annual glaciological survey (2021) conducted on Italian glaciers is here presented. About 200 volunteers operated last year in the three Alpine sectors (Piemonte -Valle d'Aosta, Lombardy and Triveneto) and in the Apennines (Calderone Glacier, Gran Sasso Group). One hundred and one glaciers were observed in the Piemonte -Valle d'Aosta sector while frontal variation was measured at the snout of fourty-nine glaciers. Twenty-seven and fifty-two glaciers were visited in the Lombardy Sector and in the Triveneto Sector, respectively (seventeen and fourty-four of which were measured, respectively). Data for seventeen Italian glaciers monitored during the 2020-2021 hydrological year are reported in the section on mass balance measurements: four glaciers in the Western Alps (Piemonte -Valle d'Aosta sector), twelve in the Eastern Alps (two in the Lombardy Sector, the other ten glaciers in the Triveneto Sector) and one in the Central Apennines).