Лëд и снег (May 2015)

Finding and investigation of the Kamchatka glaciers

  • A. Ya. Muraviev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2015-2-123-132
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 2
pp. 123 – 132

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History of finding and investigation of the present-day glaciers of the Kamchatka Peninsula is described. A degree of our knowledge of such glacier characteristics as the mass balance, sizes, and the area fluctuations for the second half of 20th – beginning of 21st century is discussed. A literature on the Kamchatka glaciations is reviewed. In accordance with purposes of the investigations, methods, and volumes of field researches five periods have been separated in the history.

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