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DOI	10.5194/tc-15-2383-2021
	Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe
	Perşoiu A.; Buzjak N.; Onaca A.; Pennos C.; Sotiriadis Y.; Ionita M.; Zachariadis S.; Styllas M.; Kosutnik J.; Hegyi A.; Butorac V.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	19940416
起始页码	2383
结束页码	2399
卷号	15 期号:5
英文摘要	Glaciers worldwide are shrinking at an accelerated rate as the climate changes in response to anthropogenic influence. While increasing air temperature is the main factor behind glacier mass and volume loss, variable patterns of precipitation distribution also play a role, though these are not as well understood. Furthermore, while the response of surface glaciers (from large polar ice sheets to small alpine glaciers) to climatic changes is well documented and continuously monitored, little to nothing is known about how cave glaciers (perennial ice accumulations in rock-hosted caves) react to atmospheric warming. In this context, we present here the response of cave and surface glaciers in SE Europe to the extreme precipitation events occurring between May and July 2019 in SE Europe. Surface glaciers in the northern Balkan Peninsula lost between 17 % and 19 % of their total area, while cave glaciers in Croatia, Greece, Romania and Slovenia lost ice at levels higher than any recorded by instrumental observations during the past decades. The melting was likely the result of large amounts of warm water delivered directly to the surface of the glaciers, leading to rapid reduction in the area of surface glaciers and the thickness of cave glaciers. As climate models predict that such extreme precipitation events are set to increase in frequency and intensity, the presence of cave glaciers in SE Europe and the paleoclimatic information they host may be lost in the near future. Moreover, the same projected continuous warming and increase in precipitation extremes could pose an additional threat to the alpine glaciers in southern Europe, resulting in faster-than-predicted melting. Copyright: © 2021 Aurel Perşoiu et al.
英文关键词	cave; ice; precipitation (climatology); summer; Europe
语种	英语
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202403
作者单位	Emil Racoviţǎ Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, 400006, Romania; Stable Isotope Laboratory, Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, 720229, Romania; Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, 400022, Romania; Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia; Department of Geography, West University, Timişoara, 300223, Romania; Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway; Department of Geography, Aegean University, Mytilene, 81100, Greece; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, 27515, Germany; Department of History and Archeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54636, Greece; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland; University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, 5000, Slovenia; Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Perşoiu A.,Buzjak N.,Onaca A.,et al. Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe[J],2021,15(5).
APA	Perşoiu A..,Buzjak N..,Onaca A..,Pennos C..,Sotiriadis Y..,...&Butorac V..(2021).Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe.Cryosphere,15(5).
MLA	Perşoiu A.,et al."Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe".Cryosphere 15.5(2021).