In honor of the very first International Glaciers’ Day on March 21, this presentation outlines results from the recent Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE) noted above, via a large international research team under the coordination of the WMO’s World Glacier Monitoring Service. GlaMBIE collected, homogenized and analyzed glacier mass changes from different field and satellite observation methods. The team then compared and combined the results from the different methods into an annual time series of glacier mass changes for all glacier regions in the world from 2000 to 2023, with the results appearing last month in Nature. Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, Deputy Secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), highlights key findings.
Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpiZGocxFYI
By Emily Jacobson, Science Writing Intern; Amy Imdieke, Global Outreach Director; and Pam Pearson, Director of ICCI.
Published Mar. 8, 2025 Updated Mar. 8, 2025 2:19 pm
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