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SUBMITTER: Permana DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6936586 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Permana Donaldi S DS Thompson Lonnie G LG Mosley-Thompson Ellen E Davis Mary E ME Lin Ping-Nan PN Nicolas Julien P JP Bolzan John F JF Bird Broxton W BW Mikhalenko Vladimir N VN Gabrielli Paolo P Zagorodnov Victor V Mountain Keith R KR Schotterer Ulrich U Hanggoro Wido W Habibie Muhammad N MN Kaize Yohanes Y Gunawan Dodo D Setyadi Gesang G Susanto Raden D RD Fernández Alfonso A Mark Bryan G BG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191209 52
The glaciers near Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia, the highest peak between the Himalayas and the Andes, are the last remaining tropical glaciers in the West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). Here, we report the recent, rapid retreat of the glaciers near Puncak Jaya by quantifying the loss of ice coverage and reduction of ice thickness over the last 8 y. Photographs and measurements of a 30-m accumulation stake anchored to bedrock on the summit of one of these glaciers document a rapid pace in the loss ...[more]