As with many other glaciers around the world, the Potanin Glacier is gradually decreasing in size. Over a 6-year period of observation, September 2003 to September 2009, it retreated by about 90 meters, thus recording an average retreat rate of 15 m/year. It also has become thinner, especially in its lower parts; the average thinning rate of 2.6 m/year has been measured over 2004–2009.[2]
Krumwiede, Brandon S.; Kamp, Ulrich; Leonard, Gregory J.; Kargel, Jeffrey S.; Dashtseren, Avirmed; Walther, Michael (2014), "Recent Glacier Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Case Studies from Munkh Khairkhan and Tavan Bogd", in Kargel, Jeffrey Stuart (ed.), Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Springer-Praxis series in geophysics, Springer, pp. 481–509, ISBN3540798188
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potanin, glacier, longest, glacier, mongolia, stretches, about, kilometres, located, through, altai, tavan, bogd, mountain, altai, mountains, glacier, named, after, explorer, grigory, potanin, location, mongoliatypemountain, glacierlocationulaankhus, district,. The Potanin Glacier is the longest glacier in Mongolia it stretches about 14 kilometres and located through in the Altai Tavan Bogd mountain in Altai Mountains 1 The glacier is named after explorer Grigory Potanin Potanin GlacierLocation in MongoliaTypeMountain glacierLocationUlaankhus District Bayan Olgii Province MongoliaCoordinates49 08 24 N 87 55 12 E 49 14000 N 87 92000 E 49 14000 87 92000 Coordinates 49 08 24 N 87 55 12 E 49 14000 N 87 92000 E 49 14000 87 92000As with many other glaciers around the world the Potanin Glacier is gradually decreasing in size Over a 6 year period of observation September 2003 to September 2009 it retreated by about 90 meters thus recording an average retreat rate of 15 m year It also has become thinner especially in its lower parts the average thinning rate of 2 6 m year has been measured over 2004 2009 2 References Edit Tavan Bogd tomongolia blogspot com Retrieved 2016 10 23 Krumwiede et al 2014 p 505Sources EditKrumwiede Brandon S Kamp Ulrich Leonard Gregory J Kargel Jeffrey S Dashtseren Avirmed Walther Michael 2014 Recent Glacier Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains Case Studies from Munkh Khairkhan and Tavan Bogd in Kargel Jeffrey Stuart ed Global Land Ice Measurements from Space Springer Praxis series in geophysics Springer pp 481 509 ISBN 3540798188 This Mongolia location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article about a glacier is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Potanin Glacier amp oldid 1077652975, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
