ANNUAL GLACIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ITALIAN GLACIERS (2018) CAMPAGNA GLACIOLOGICA ANNUALE DEI GHIACCIAI ITALIANI (2018)
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2019
abstract:
BARONI C.,BONDESAN A., CARTURAN L., CHIARLE M., Annual glaciological survey of Italian glaciers (2018). (IT ISSN 0391-9838, 2019).Annual glaciological survey of Italian glaciers is here sum-marized. More than 200 volunteers operated in the three Alpine sectors (Piemonte - Val d'Aosta, Lombardia and Tre Venezie) and in the Apennines (Calderone Glacier, Gran Sasso Group). Data on the frontal variations measured dur-ing the 2018 glaciological survey are reported: 111 glaciers were visited in the Piemonte - Val d'Aosta Sector (60 were measured), 23 in the Lombardy Sector (19 measured), 61 in the Tre Venezie Sector (50 measured) and 1 in the Ap-ennines. Section on mass balance measurements provides data for 20 Italian glaciers monitored during the 2017-2018 hydrological year.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
mountain glaciers; frontal variation; monitoring; glaciological survey; mass balance
List of contributors:
Baroni, Carlo; Chiarle, Marta
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