Factors Influencing Legacy Pollutant Accumulation in Alpine Osprey: Biology, Topography, Or Melting Glaciers?

Melting Alpine glaciers enrich high-elevation lakes with reactive nitrogen.

Alpine glaciers have receded substantially over the last century in many regions of the world. Resulting changes in glacial runoff not only affect the hydrological cycle, but can also alter the physical (i.e., turbidity from glacial flour) and biogeochemical properties of downstream ecosystems. Here we compare nutrient concentrations, transparency gradients, algal biomass, and fossil diatom spe...

Melting Alpine Glaciers Enrich High-Elevation Lakes with Reactive Nitrogen

J A S M I N E E . S A R O S , * , † K E V I N C . R O S E , ‡ D A V I D W . C L O W , § V E R L I N C . S T E P H E N S , § A N D R E A B . N U R S E , † H E A T H E R A . A R N E T T , † J E F F E R Y R . S T O N E , | C R A I G E . W I L L I A M S O N , ‡ A N D A L E X A N D E R P . W O L F E ⊥ Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, Department of Zoology, Miami Uni...

Melting Alpine Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains: Impacts on Ecosystems, Agriculture, and Economics

Alpine glaciers to disappear within decades ?

Strong spatial variability of snow accumulation observed with helicopter-borne GPR on two adjacent Alpine glaciers

This study compares high-resolution helicopter-borne radar measurements to extensive groundbased profiling of the snow cover on Findeland Adler Glacier, Switzerland. The results demonstrate that derived accumulation values of either method are well in accordance. The spatial distribution of radar based snow depth allows a clear distinction of three zones of different accumulation characteristic...