Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)

Mean annual air temperatures, total amount of precipitation, current state of glaciers and changes of their areas on some mountains of the Turkish territory are analyzed. The following regions are considered: East-Pontus Mountains, south-eastern part of the Taurus Mountains, volcanic regions Tendure...

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Main Authors: A. V. Zimnitskiy, Yu. V. Efremov, Yu. G. Ilyichev
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Language:Russian
Published: Nauka 2015-11-01
Series:Lëd i Sneg
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Online Access:https://ice-snow.igras.ru/jour/article/view/254
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spelling doaj-9f0eca2a9eb74027880b92a7de4d77622021-08-02T08:42:09ZrusNaukaLëd i Sneg2076-67342412-37652015-11-01554506010.15356/2076-6734-2015-4-50-60241Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)A. V. Zimnitskiy0Yu. V. Efremov1Yu. G. Ilyichev2Krasnodar regional office of the Russian geographical societyKuban State University, KrasnodarNorth-Caucasian interregional territorial administration on hydrometeorology and monitoring of environment, KrasnodarMean annual air temperatures, total amount of precipitation, current state of glaciers and changes of their areas on some mountains of the Turkish territory are analyzed. The following regions are considered: East-Pontus Mountains, south-eastern part of the Taurus Mountains, volcanic regions Tendurek, Erciyes, and volcanic zone around the Wang Lake. There are seventy glaciers in these regions with their total area of 16.5 km2. It is shown that mostly the present-day glaciers are in state of degradation, and the rock glaciers are typical among them.https://ice-snow.igras.ru/jour/article/view/254ablationaccumulationdegradation of glaciationglacierrock glaciersnow linesnow-patch
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author A. V. Zimnitskiy
Yu. V. Efremov
Yu. G. Ilyichev
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Yu. V. Efremov
Yu. G. Ilyichev
Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
Lëd i Sneg
ablation
accumulation
degradation of glaciation
glacier
rock glacier
snow line
snow-patch
author_facet A. V. Zimnitskiy
Yu. V. Efremov
Yu. G. Ilyichev
author_sort A. V. Zimnitskiy
title Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
title_short Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
title_full Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
title_fullStr Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
title_full_unstemmed Present-day glaciation of Western Asia (on the Turkey territory)
title_sort present-day glaciation of western asia (on the turkey territory)
publisher Nauka
series Lëd i Sneg
issn 2076-6734
2412-3765
publishDate 2015-11-01
description Mean annual air temperatures, total amount of precipitation, current state of glaciers and changes of their areas on some mountains of the Turkish territory are analyzed. The following regions are considered: East-Pontus Mountains, south-eastern part of the Taurus Mountains, volcanic regions Tendurek, Erciyes, and volcanic zone around the Wang Lake. There are seventy glaciers in these regions with their total area of 16.5 km2. It is shown that mostly the present-day glaciers are in state of degradation, and the rock glaciers are typical among them.
topic ablation
accumulation
degradation of glaciation
glacier
rock glacier
snow line
snow-patch
url https://ice-snow.igras.ru/jour/article/view/254
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