glaciology
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"It may likely not be as hot as 2023 — because that was an El Nino event, which has now died down," said Imperial College London glaciology professor Martin Siegert.
From Salon • May 24, 2024
“The glue isn’t there anymore,” says Antonella Senese, a glaciology and climate science researcher at the University of Milan in Italy.
From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2023
Wilson Suárez, professor of mountain hydrology and glaciology at Peru’s La Molina National Agrarian University, said those factors constitute “an ideal cocktail” for the small lagoons in the high Andean areas to dry up.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022
Farooq Azam, a specialist in glaciology and hydrology at the Indian Institute of Technology in Indore, said glacial bursts are rare.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2021
Students of glaciology are more and more thoroughly convinced that glaciation depends on the availability of moisture even more than upon low temperature.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth
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