Glaciers play a crucial role in the Earth System: they are important water suppliers to lower‐
lying areas during hot and dry periods, and they are major contributors to the observed …

Glaciers offer the potential to reconstruct past climate over timescales from decades to
millennia. They are found on nearly every continent, and at the Last Glacial Maximum …

The near-global retreat of glaciers over the last century provides some of the most iconic
imagery for communicating the reality of anthropogenic climate change to the public …

Climate change in the European Alps during the 20th century has been characterized by
increases in minimum temperatures of about 2° C, a more modest increase in maximum …

Records of glacier fluctuations compiled by the World Glacier Monitoring Service can be
used to derive an independent estimate of global warming during the last 100 years …

Dynamic ice-flow models for 12 glaciers and ice caps have been forced with various climate
change scenarios. The volume of this sample spans three orders of magnitude. Six climate …

The internationally recommended multi-level strategy for monitoring mountain glaciers is
illustrated using the example of the European Alps, where especially dense information has …

Global warming is expected to significantly affect the runoff regime of mountainous
catchments. Simple methods for calculating future glacier change in hydrological models are …

To investigate the spatial distribution of the energy-and mass-balance fluxes of a glacier, a
two-dimensional mass-balance model was developed and applied to Morteratschgletscher …

Glaciers in the European Alps began to retreat abruptly from their mid-19th century
maximum, marking what appeared to be the end of the Little Ice Age. Alpine temperature …