{"id":1368,"date":"2015-12-10T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2015\/12\/10\/massive-mass-loss\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T13:10:38","slug":"massive-mass-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2015\/12\/10\/massive-mass-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive glacier melt in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kg-card-markdown\">\n<p>After a pleasant winter with 5 % more snow accumulation than average, the second warmest summer in history of temperature measurements and the driest summer since 1911 in Austria, melting rates were near record level from 2003. At the glacier terminus of Pasterze, the thickness of ice decreases up to 10 m, between autumn 2014 and autumn 2015. Overall, the annual mass balance for Pasterze is -1.4 m w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup>. For the glaciers at Hoher Sonnblick, the annual mass balance for Kleinflei\u00dfkees is -1.4 m w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup> and for Goldbergkees -1.9 m w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=TXC0Y56wG3w\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Evolution of the terminus of Pasterze between 2011 and 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1022_1000_rk-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1022_1000_rk-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1022_1000_rk-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1022_1000_rk.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Drilling and DGPS survey of a ablationstake in the upper part of Pasterze (photo: R. Koch).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"708\" data-src=\"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mb_2015_abgabe_1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1518 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mb_2015_abgabe_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mb_2015_abgabe_1000-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/mb_2015_abgabe_1000-768x544.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/708;\" \/><figcaption>Annual mass balance [mm w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup>] of Pasterze 2014\/2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a pleasant winter with 5 % more snow accumulation than average, the second warmest summer in history of temperature measurements and the driest summer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2015\/12\/10\/massive-mass-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massive glacier melt in 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}