Global disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers: observations, causes, and challenges

BK Veettil, U Kamp - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This article reviews the current status of tropical glaciers in the South American Andes, East
Africa, and Australasia by shedding light on past, present, and future glacier coverage in the …

Glacier monitoring and glacier-climate interactions in the tropical Andes: A review

BK Veettil, S Wang, SF de Souza, UF Bremer… - Journal of South …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this review, we summarized the evolution of glacier monitoring in the tropical Andes
during the last few decades, particularly after the development of remote sensing and …

Climate Change according to Ecuadorian academics–Perceptions versus facts

T Toulkeridis, E Tamayo… - … Revista de Ciencias …, 2020 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
El cambio climático se ha convertido en uno de los temas principales en las agendas en
diferentes países. Los efectos actuales requieren de acciones climáticas efectivas ya …

The impacts of warming on rapidly retreating high-altitude, low-latitude glaciers and ice core-derived climate records

LG Thompson, ME Davis, E Mosley-Thompson… - Global and planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alpine glaciers in the low-and mid-latitudes respond more quickly than large polar ice
sheets to changes in temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity, and radiation. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Cambio Climático según los académicos ecuatorianos-Percepciones versus hechos

T Toulkeridis, E Tamayo… - … Revista de Ciencias …, 2020 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
El cambio climático se ha convertido en uno de los temas principales en las agendas en
diferentes países. Los efectos actuales requieren de acciones climáticas efectivas ya …

Multi-decadal glacier area and mass balance change in the Southern Peruvian Andes

LS Taylor, DJ Quincey, MW Smith, ER Potter… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Around 70% of the world's tropical glaciers are located in Peru, and they are melting rapidly
in response to climate change. The glaciers of the data-sparse Southern Peruvian Andes …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale temporal variability in meltwater contributions in a tropical glacierized watershed

L Saberi, RT McLaughlin, GHC Ng… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Climate models predict amplified warming at high elevations in low latitudes, making tropical
glacierized regions some of the most vulnerable hydrological systems in the world …

Remote sensing of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a review

BK Veettil, U Kamp - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
While the tropical Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile,
and northern Argentina represent more than 95% of all tropical glaciers globally, they are …

Study of 40-year glacier retreat in the northern region of the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru, using satellite images: preliminary results

B Kozhikkodan Veettil, SF de Souza - Remote Sensing Letters, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, the possibility of using a Landsat image series to calculate the decadal
changes in the area of mountain glaciers in the eastern cordillera of Peru is explored. In the …

Recent trends in annual snowline variations in the northern wet outer tropics: case studies from southern Cordillera Blanca, Peru

BK Veettil, S Wang, UF Bremer, SF de Souza… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2017 - Springer
This paper describes the changes in the annual maximum snowlines of a selected set of
mountain glaciers at the southern end of the Cordillera Blanca between 1984 and 2015 …