Changes of glaciation in the Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal) during the last 30 years

• Autorzy: Midriak R.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Author, as a scientific participant of the first Czech-Slovak Expedition to the Mt. Everest in 1984, focuses on the glaciation in the Sagarmatha National Park (the Central Himalayas, Nepal) in 1978 (Fig. 1 and Table 1) and compares it with the present-day state. Despite overwhelming majority of the papers bearing data on the fastest retreat of the Mt. Everest’s glaciers it can be stated that obvious changes of the covering glaciers were not recorded in the Sagarmatha National Park (34.2% in the year of 1978 and 39.8% in the year of 2009). At present, for 59 sections of 18 valley glaciers (Nangpa, Melung, Lunag, Chhule, Sumna, Langmoche, Ngozumpa, Gyubanar, Lungsampa, Khumbu, Lobuche, Changri Shar, Imja, Nuptse, Lhotse Nup, Lhotse, Lhotse Shar andAma Dablam) their length of retreat during 30 years was recorded: at 5 sections from 267 m to 1,804m (the width of retreat on 24sections being from 1 m to 224m), while for 7 sections an increase in length from 12 m to 741 m was noted (the increase of glacier width at 23 sections being from 1 m to 198 m). More important than changes in length and/or width of valley glaciers are both the depletion of ice mass and an intensive growth of the number lakes: small supraglacial ponds, as well as dam moraine lakes situated below the snowline (289 lakes compared to 165 lakes in the year of 1978).

Słowa kluczowe

EN

glaciation; snow-line; changes of glaciers; Sagarmatha National Park; Central Himalaya

• Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Geomorfologów Polskich
• Czasopismo: Landform Analysis
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: Vol. 10
• Strony: 85--94
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 35 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Midriak R.

• Matej Bel University, Institute of Science and Research, Research Institute of Landscape and Regions, Cesta na amfiteáter 1, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic,

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