Summer Snow Melt on Swiss Glaciers Increases
1st August 2024
The glaciers are continuing to shrink as warmer temperatures take their toll. On Swiss #glaciers the days of plenty are over for this year: we started off with excellent conditions…
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The glaciers are continuing to shrink as warmer temperatures take their toll.
On Swiss #glaciers the days of plenty are over for this year: we started off with excellent conditions (much snow). But during the last weeks the tide has turned. Melt has kicked in, probably accelerated by abundant Saharan dust on snow surfaces. Partly 3m of snowmelt in a month! pic.twitter.com/dyjKucsvLA
— Matthias Huss (@matthias_huss) July 29, 2024
A group of scientists have developed a new technique to monitor the snow on the largest glacier in the Swiss Alps.
So, how does the technology work?
See this video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s technology programme.
