Global occurrence of glacier detachments

New research shows that climate change might be having a more dramatic effect on mountain glaciers than thought, causing them to leave their bed and act more like avalanches. A team of scientists from all over the world used data from different satellites including the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions and the US Landsat mission as well as digital elevation models to document and analyse events that were already known about, but also to identify glacier detachments that had not been recorded so far. They studied 20 glacier detachments that occurred in 10 different regions, from Alaska to the Andes and from the Caucasus to Tibet.

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