{"id":1374,"date":"2018-11-29T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/glacier-melt-close-to-record\/"},"modified":"2020-02-22T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T10:45:02","slug":"glacier-melt-close-to-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/glacier-melt-close-to-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier melt close to record high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The dry and extreme warm summer months have severely eroded the glaciers in the Austrian Alps. Despite the above average snowpack in winter in the Hohe Tauern Mountains, Goldbergkees lost 1700 mm w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup> of mass and Kleinflei\u00dfkees 1400 mm w.e. a<sup>-1<\/sup> of mass. That&#8217;s just slightly behind the record melting of 2003, 2011, 2015 and 2017. Other glaciers in the northern Austrian Alps and in the West of Austria even suffered more than the glaciers in the Hohe Tauern. The reason for this is the lack of above average snowpack in winter compared to the Sonnblick glaciers. The glacier tongue of Pasterze continues to disintegrate. This part of the glacier, the area below the icefall, the debris free glacier had a mean loss of 6.2 m of ice thickness with a maximum at the glacier terminus up to 10 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=JaqAzWHW3n0\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Time lapse of melting snow from webcam Goldbergkees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"708\" src=\"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Annual mass balance for Kleinflei\u00dfkees (left) and Goldbergkees (right). The circles represents the ablation stake network with the annual loss in cm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"698\" data-src=\"http:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zeitreihen_massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1395 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zeitreihen_massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zeitreihen_massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/zeitreihen_massenbilanz_gok_flk_1000-768x536.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\/698;\" \/><figcaption>\nTime series of annual mass balance for Goldbergkees and Kleinflei\u00dfkees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zamg.ac.at\/cms\/de\/images\/klima\/bild_klima-news\/medien-aussendungen-2018\/pasterze-freiwandeck_animation-2018\/image\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Time lapse from the last three year (2016, 2017 and 2018) of Pasterze.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dry and extreme warm summer months have severely eroded the glaciers in the Austrian Alps. Despite the above average snowpack in winter in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/glacier-melt-close-to-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glacier melt close to record high&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","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\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glacio-live.ap4net.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}