London (Reuters) – einige Gletscher der Kordillere von der
Himalaya gewann eine kleine Menge der Masse zwischen 1999 und 2008,
nach einer neuen Studie, Widerstand gegen den globalen Trend
den Rückgang der Gletscher.
sagte auch in Nature Geoscience veröffentlichte Studie
, die das Karakorum-Gebirge in den Himalaya-Bergen beigetragen hatte
weniger auf der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels als angenommen
zuvor.
den Anstieg der globalen Temperaturen schmelzen des der
Eiskappen und polaren Eismassen und das Wasser, dass diese
Gießen trägt zu der Anstieg der Meere, die
droht Populationen von Nationen und Inseln Fuß
Höhe.
die French University of Grenoble research
estimates that the glaciers of the Karakoram won between 0.11 and 0.22
meters per year between 1999 and 2008.
“our conclusion is that the glaciers of the Karakoram have
had a small profit of mass at the beginning of the 21st century that
indicates that the glaciers in the East/Centre are not representative
(the Himalayas) set”, said experts of the
University.
the study seems to confirm previous research that
had suggested that the Karakoram glaciers had not followed
the global trend of decline in the last three decades. the
isolation of the mountains had made it difficult to confirm this
pattern.
the Karakoram mountain range extends along of the
borders between India, China and Pakistan and is covered by
19.950 square kilometers of glaciers there is located the
second highest mountain in the world, the K2.
“suggest that the contribution to the increase of the level of the
sea in this region in the first decade of the 21st century should
review + 0.04 mm per year to – 0.006 mm per year equivalent to the
sea level”, said the study.
Himalaya boasts the largest amount of ice of the
planet outside the polar icecaps and fed many of
the great rivers of the world, including the Ganges and the
Brahmaputra, which depend on hundreds of thousands of people
worldwide glaciers, polar ice caps and ice sheets
have poured about 4,200 cubic kilometers from 2003 to 2010,
according to suggest experts, which is sufficient to raise the
about 12 mm sea level in jener Zeit.