Satellite observations included those from the US Terra/ASTER and ICESat-2, the US–German GRACE, the German TanDEM-X and ESA’s CryoSat missions, among others. ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is ...

截至 2000 年，全球冰川（不包括格陵兰岛和南极洲的大陆冰盖）覆盖面积为 705221 平方公里，冰量约为 121728 亿吨。 从那时起，冰川损失了其总冰量的 5%左右，地区损失从南极和亚南极群岛的 2% 到中欧的 39% 不等。一组卫星利用光学 ...

Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

From top: CryoSat, Terra, ICESat, and the twin GRACE spacecraft, above a map of elevation change for the Vatnajökull ice cap on Iceland. (ESA, NASA, and Planetary Visions) In January, the United ...

Satellite observations included those from the US Terra/ASTER and ICESat-2, the US–German GRACE, the German TanDEM-X and ESA’s CryoSat missions, among others. This produced an annual time ...

Future missions such as Europe’s Copernicus CRISTAL mission will build on the work of ESA’s CryoSat, ensuring that glacier monitoring remains a top priority. By improving data collection, these ...