Mt. Sir MacDonald and Illecillewaet Glacier, 1902 (~end of Little Ice Age (LIA)
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Visualisation of changes in alpine glaciers in western Canada
Roger Wheate, University of Northern BC
Mt. Sir MacDonald and Illecillewaet Glacier, 1902 (~end of Little Ice Age (LIA)
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1885
Illecillewaet Glacier, Glacier National Park
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2011
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Thompson Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, 1965
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Glaciers viewed as constant in 1960s-70s
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1981 Columbia Icefieldelevation data are not updated: roads, glaciers from 1980; contours from 1960
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Western Canada
(BC / Alberta)
~15,000 glaciers
BC ~25,000 km2
Alberta: 1,000 km2
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Mt. Edziza
1965 yellow1982 red(from air photo mapping)
2005 white(Landsat)
accumulation area - black
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Robson Glacier
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1923 British Columbia-Alberta boundary commission map
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Cambrian Icefield, Coast Mountains
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Maligne Lake glaciers, Jasper NP
Maligne Lake area 1930-2010: total loss of 33.07 km2 (from 79.5 km2) or - 0.52% per year. Between 2000 and 2010, the rate increased to 2.23% per year
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Sources: map contours, stereo photography, spaceborne DEMs: e.g. SRTM, ASTER GDEM
Current changes ~ -5m/year
Sources: maps, air photos, satellite images
Current changes ~ -20m/year
Thinning Retreat
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Techniques for showing elevation change (DEM subtraction: Haeberli and Paul, 2009)
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Hoodoo Mountain area: Landsat TM 2010
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Hoodoo Glacier: extents 1965 to 2005 (overlain on Landsat TM 2010)
1965, 1982 from aerial photos, 1999 and 2005 from Landsat
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NTDB 1965: DEM from contours; geogratis.ca
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BC ‘TRIM’ mapping 1982: digital stereophotography; geobase.ca
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 1999 (spaceborne)
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ASTER GDEM 2000 – 2008 (~2004) multiple images
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DEM Difference Image: NTDB (1965) – ASTER (2004)
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NTDB 1965
Salmon Glacier area
Alaska / BC
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BC TRIM 1985
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SRTM 1999
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ASTER 2004
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230
0
DEM subtractionNTDB – ASTER
0-230m (unclassed)
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Final map product
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Severnaya Zemlya: Glacier changes 1980-2000s dib.joanneum.at/smaragd
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Severnaya Zemlya: Glacier changes in 1980-2000s
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Landsat image, Zermatt 01/09/2010downloaded 03/09/2010 – geotiff (free Landsat archive: glovis.usgs.gov)
GlobGlacier workshop, Zermatt 01/09/2010
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December 1989
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January 2010
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Feb 2006
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April 2004
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June 2006
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August 2005
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Final slide
* Visualisation images to be displayed at: glacierchange.org (public input website run by Ph.D student Matt Beedle)
* New millennium global glacier extents: glims.org/RGI/randolph.html
Acknowledgements
Thanks to reviewers comments
Selected images by :Anastasia Gurov, Ulrike Schinke, Jacob Trultzch (Dresden TU)Sabrina Marx, Marlene Baumgart (Bonn, Heidelberg)