Gilkey glacier
• A very detailed technical report by WWF about glacier retreat in Himalaya and Tibet
• Glacier retreat in Glacier national park, US. Source: US geological Survey (usgs.gov)
• A nice photo of Gilkey glacier
• Swiss educ glaciers online web pages; lots of photos and science
• Anatomy of a glacier: schematic view of a glacier with most used terms
• Why (sometimes) glaciers are blue? (sorce the Cause of colors website)
About ice
• The dramatic decline in Kilimanjaro’s ice/snow cap documented by satellite images (source: NASA earthobservatory)
• Satellites See a Double-Texas Sized Loss In Arctic Sea Ice (source: NASA)
• Read the history of B-15a and C-19a, two giant icebergs that calved from Antarctica in 2002 and are still wandering in the southern oceans. (source: en.wikipedia.org)
Monitoring ice with satellites
• Telespazio provides satellite based mapping and change monitoring on glaciers. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometric processing allows to measure glacier displacements with an accuracy of few millimeters.
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