Mountain regions have been identi fied as especially vulnerable areas to climate change. Changes in snowfall, glacier retreat and shifts in biodiversity amount and distribution are some examples of the sensitivity of mountain ecosystems. Moreover, in many mountain economies, reliable snow cover plays a key role as an important resource for the winter tourism industry, the main income source and...

Abstract Surface energy-balance models are commonly used in conjunction with satellite thermal imagery to estimate supraglacial debris thickness. Removing the need for local meteorological data thickness estimation workflow could improve versatility and spatiotemporal application of estimation. We evaluate use regional reanalysis derive two mountain glaciers using a surface model. Results force...

In this paper I explore a position on which it is possible to eliminate the need for postulating abstract objects through abstraction principles by treating terms for abstracta as ‘incomplete symbols’, using Russell’s no-classes theory as a template from which to generalize. I defend views of this stripe against objections, most notably Richard Heck’s charge that syntactic forms of nominalism c...