10,000 years of Andean glacier melt explained
Friday, September 9, 2011 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
Researchers have succeeded in explaining 10 000 years of glacial melt in the Andes. They showed that the Telata glacier in Bolivia retreated 3 km during the Holocene epoch covering that time and continuing in the present. This regression was linked mainly to a 3°C increase in atmospheric temperatures resulting from warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, itself a response to a rise in insolation in the tropics.