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    The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) was started in 1986, combining the two former services PSFG (Permanent Service on Fluctuations of Glaciers) and...
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    198,000 to 200,000 glaciers in the world. Catalogs of glaciers include: World Glacier Inventory World Glacier Monitoring Service Global Land Ice Measurements...
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    mass balance to the World Glacier Monitoring Service is −16 m. This includes 23 consecutive years of negative mass balances. A glacier with a sustained negative...
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    (1957–58) and contributions to the World Glacier Inventory (WGI, now part of the World Glacier Monitoring Service) for the International Hydrological...
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  • D.C. public radio station WETA-FM. The World Glacier Monitoring Service Whispering gallery modes (WGMs) Worlds Greatest Music Station (or WGMS 1332) -...
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    mentions ice-albedo and melt-elevation feedbacks. "Global Glacier State". World Glacier Monitoring Service ("under the auspices of: ISC (WDS), IUGG (IACS), UN...
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    of glaciers in Switzerland "Glacier du Giétro, Alps". World Glacier Monitoring Service. Retrieved 31 May 2019. Zryd, Amédée (2008), Les glaciers en mouvement...
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    Research Program has monitored the outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1942, including Mendenhall Glacier. The glacier has also retreated 1.75...
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    that a large proportion (555 of 625) of the glaciers being observed by the World Glacier Monitoring Service were advancing, not retreating. George Monbiot...
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    ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 33911269. S2CID 233446479. "Global Glacier State". World Glacier Monitoring Service ("under the auspices of: ISC (WDS), IUGG (IACS), UN...
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    Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher, German pronunciation: [ˈalɛtʃˌɡlɛtʃɐ]) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in...
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    Korzhenevsky glacier, its area is 38 km2. The glaciers are quite severely frozen. One of the reference glaciers of the World Glacier Monitoring Service - Central...
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    ISBN 3-7022-1937-4 World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) (2012), Fluctuations of Glaciers Database, Zurich: WGMS: World Glacier Monitoring Service, doi:10...
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  • the 'reference glaciers' for mass balance of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). In 2019, researchers estimated that the glacier will have disappeared...
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    Park Service. September 22, 2009. Archived from the original on February 28, 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2020. "Monitoring and Assessing Glacier Changes...
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  • data-analysis Services, most of the legacy data centers and services continued under the WDS. CODATA International Polar Year WMO Global Atmosphere Watch World Data...
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    p. 267. Seiz, G.; N. Foppa (2007). The activities of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on...
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    Kashmir. At 76 km (47 mi) long, it is the longest glacier in the Karakoram and second-longest in the world's non-polar areas. It falls from an altitude of...
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    analysis of a glacier inventory of Axel Heiberg Island was undertaken in the 1960s. Later inventories of the World Glacier Monitoring Service under the direction...
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  • Services under IACS responsibility (at present IACS has responsibility within the International Council of Science for the World Glacier Monitoring Service...
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    necessary.. services". The declaration was made at a request the mountainous country of Tajikistan made during 2022. Melting ice and glaciers threaten water...
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    Konstantin Makarevich (category Soviet military personnel of World War II)
    was as an official representative of the Soviet Union in the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS). He authored more than 200 scientific articles, monographs...
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  • also worked on the glacier inventories of the Swiss Alps and the world. He became director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service. In 1980 Fritz Müller...
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    Wilfried Haeberli, who announced the latest annual results of the World Glacier Monitoring Service. He stated that the important trend of 10 years or so showed...
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  • thirty test glaciers monitored in the Andes by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) only Chile's Echaurren Norte glacier thickened between 2005...
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    wildlife habitats, while allowing sport hunting. Glacier Bay became part of a binational UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, and was inscribed as a Biosphere...
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    the data before monitoring starts. Environmental monitoring includes monitoring of air quality, soils and water quality. Many monitoring programmes are...
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    of events, and largest amount of energy released since the monitoring began in 1982. Glaciers are among the most conspicuous and dynamic geologic features...
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    Vernagtferner (category Glaciers of Austria)
    Vernagtferner during the ski touring season "World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2005–2010 (Vol. X). Zürich 2012" (PDF). "Kommission...
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    Mount Hood (redirect from Eliot glacier)
    to build monitoring stations along Mount Hood and other active volcanoes". The New York Times. Retrieved January 2, 2023. "Three new monitoring stations...
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