An international team including Swiss researchers has produced a unique estimate of the ice volume of all glaciers on Earth,with the exception of Greenland and Antarctic ice caps. They found that the ice reserves of the tall Asian Mountains own been overestimated and are likely to shrink much faster than anticipated. "This study is exceptional because, for the first time, or research groups from several universities own determined the thickness of all the world's glaciers using different calculation models," says Matthias Huss of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg. To anticipate the evolution of glaciers and the freshwater reserves that depend on them, not to mention sea level, and researchers need recent data on the current global ice volume. Under the leadership of the The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ETH Zurich, an international team of glaciologists combined five models to provide a unique estimate of the ...
Source: swissinfo.ch