Impact of climate change on small glaciers of East Georgia.
2016
There is considered the impact of climate change on small glaciers of eastern Georgia regional. The characteristics of these glaciers are determined on the basis of satellite remote sensing data and catalogue of glaciers. From the 105 small glaciers of eastern Georgia according to the catalogue 102 are identified based on the satellite remote sensing. In this region, the global warming is defined, namely an increase of air temperature in the range of 10 C. The calculations show, that from total number (102) of glaciers only 27 glaciers (27.5 % of identified) are existing and 75 (73.5% of identified) glaciers disappeared or turn into snow-field. All above mentioned indicates the destructive impact of modern climate change on the glaciers development. Tab. 1, Ref. 11.
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