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Tropical Glaciers
Georg KaserHenry Osmaston
出版Cambridge University Press, 2002
主題Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / MountainsScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / GeologyScience / Earth Sciences / HydrologyScience / Earth Sciences / LimnologyTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / General
ISBN05216333389780521633338
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZEB-I3twN_gC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Tropical glaciers are both highly sensitive indicators of global climate and fresh water reservoirs in some fast developing regions. This book gives a theoretical and practical analysis of tropical glaciology including a useful definition of tropical glacier-climate regimes and an analysis of the main glaciological variables. The Rwenzori and the Cordillera Blanca are investigated as examples of tropical glacierized mountains. The fluctuations of their glaciers since the end of the Little Ice Age are reconstructed and the probable climatic reasons are discussed. The evidence of great expansions of mountain glaciers throughout the tropics on several occasions during the Quaternary are summarized, examined and then applied and contrasted.