| Title | Glaciers of the Ragged Range, Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories, Canada |
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| Author | Demuth, M N; Wilson, P; Haggarty, D |
| Source | Global land ice measurements from space; by Kargel, J S (ed.); Leonard, G J (ed.); Bishop, M P; Kääb, A; Raup, B H; 2014 p. 375-383, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7 16 |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20120325 |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Document | book |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Northwest Territories; Yukon |
| NTS | 95E/13; 95E/14; 95L/03; 95L/04; 105H/16; 105I/01 |
| Area | Nahanni National Park; Ragged Range |
| Lat/Long WENS | -128.2500 -127.2500 62.2500 61.7500 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; glaciers; glaciology; glacial landforms; ice sheets; ice; ice morphology; icefields |
| Illustrations | location maps; plots; photographs |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience |
| Released | 2014 07 08 |
| Abstract | A new glacier inventory was developed for the Ragged Range, an area only recently added to Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories. Federal mapping from aerial photography in 1982 was
compared with Landsat satellite imagery from 2008. Glacier cover decreased in area by 30 % over that period; the greatest percentage loss was in glaciers with areas between 1 and 10 km2, while the largest number of disappearances was of glaciers
0.1-1 km2 in area. The smallest glaciers less than 0.1 km2 in area showed little loss to modest growth in topographic niches protected from solar radiation. Recommendations for further work in this environmentally significant frontier region are
provided. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 292073 |
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