Precipitation impacts glacial melt, Patagonian Glacier study suggests
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 30 March, 2012
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Glaciers play a vital role in Earth’s climate system, and it’s critical to understand what contributes to their fluctuation. Increased global temperatures are frequently viewed as the cause of glacial melt, but a new study of Patagonia’s Gualas Glacier highlights the role of precipitation in the glacier’s fluctuation....