{"id":1843,"date":"2020-10-02T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:22:19","slug":"glacier-mass-loss-doubles-in-easternmost-tian-shan-since-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/glacier-mass-loss-doubles-in-easternmost-tian-shan-since-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier Mass Loss Doubles in Easternmost Tian Shan Since 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journal of Glaciology, Sept 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glacier mass loss has doubled in the Tian Shan mountains of eastern Central Asia, known as the region\u2019s \u201cWater Towers\u201d. \u00a0This accelerated mass loss, in the glacierized Karlik range of the Tian Shan, between 2000-2015 as compared to 1972-2000 is associated with \u201cdramatic\u201d regional warming; and directly impacts water resources and economies throughout Central Asia and western China.\u00a0 In particular, the Tarim River Basin of China, which supports one of the world\u2019s largest sources of cotton, is entirely fed by ice and snow melt, mostly from the Tian Shan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-glaciology\/article\/doubling-of-glacier-mass-loss-in-the-karlik-range-easternmost-tien-shan-between-the-periods-19722000-and-20002015\/41530EB023E6F6B34EF3EF0A617D9B1\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-glaciology\/article\/doubling-of-glacier-mass-loss-in-the-karlik-range-easternmost-tien-shan-between-the-periods-19722000-and-20002015\/41530EB023E6F6B34EF3EF0A617D9B1<\/a>1<\/p>\n<p>Compiled by Amy Imdieke.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal of Glaciology, Sept 23 Glacier mass loss has doubled in the Tian Shan mountains of eastern Central Asia, known as the region\u2019s \u201cWater Towers\u201d. \u00a0This accelerated mass loss, in the glacierized Karlik range of the Tian Shan, between 2000-2015 as compared to 1972-2000 is associated with \u201cdramatic\u201d regional warming; and directly impacts water resources [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules","category-latest-research"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}