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- Haeberli
Current Research Project
- Title / Titel
- World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)
- Summary / Zusammenfassung
- The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) collects standardised observations on changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers with time (glacier fluctuations), as well as statistical information on the distribution of perennial surface ice in space (glacier inventories). Such glacier fluctuation and inventory data represent high-priority key indicators of climate change and are monitored as terrestrial variables within global climate-related observing systems directed by WMO, UNESCO, UNEP, FAO and ICSU. They form a basis for hydrological modelling with respect to possible effects of atmospheric warming, and provide fundamental information in glaciology, glacial geomorphology and quaternary geology.
Weitere Informationen
- Publications / Publikationen
- Zemp, M., Hoelzle, M. and Haeberli, W. (2009): Six decades of glacier mass
balance observations - a review of the worldwide monitoring network. Annals
of Glaciology, 50: p. 101–111.WGMS (2008b): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2000-2005 (Vol. IX). Haeberli, W.,
Zemp, M., Kääb, A., Paul, F. and Hoelzle, M. (eds.), ICSU (FAGS) / IUGG
(IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO / WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich,
Switzerland: 266 pp.WGMS (2008a): Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures. Zemp, M., Roer, I.,
Kääb, A., Hoelzle, M., Paul, F. and Haeberli, W. (eds.), UNEP, World Glacier
Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland: 88 pp.WGMS (2007): Glacier Mass Balance Bulletin No. 9 (2004-2005). Haeberli, W.,
Zemp, M. and Hoelzle, M. (eds.), ICSU (FAGS) / IUGG (IACS) / UNEP / UNESCO /
WMO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland: 100 pp.Haeberli, W. (2006): Integrated perception of glacier changes: a challenge
of historical dimensions. In: Knight, P. G. (ed): Glacier Science and
Environmental Change. Blackwell, Oxford, 423-430.WGMS (1989): World glacier inventory - Status 1988. Haeberli, W., Bösch, H.,
Scherler, K., Østrem, G. and Wallén, C. C. (eds.), IAHS (ICSI) / UNEP /
UNESCO, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich, Switzerland: 458 pp.Weitere Informationen
- Project Leadership and Contacts /
Projektleitung und Kontakte Prof. Dr. Wilfried Haeberli (Project Leader) haeberli@geo.uzh.ch Dr. Martin Hoelzle hoelzle@geo.uzh.ch Dr. Isabelle Gaertner-Roer isabelle.roer@geo.uzh.ch Dr. Michael Zemp mzemp@geo.uzh.ch
- Funding Source(s) /
Unterstützt durch - Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung), Other Public Sources (e.g. Federal or Cantonal Agencies), Others
Funding is mainly through the University of Zurich, the 'Bridging Credit' ofthe Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Federal Office for theEnvironment (FOEN), and GCOS Switzerland; with contributions from SCNAT,ICSU(FAGS), IUGG(IACS), UNEP, UNESCO and WMO.
- Duration of Project / Projektdauer
- Jan 1986 to Jan 2015