Mapping The Shrinking Glaciers

Disappearing Glaciers is an Esri StoryMap designed to highlight the alarming speed at which glaciers are disappearing approximately the world.

The map looks at recent aerial imagery of vi dissimilar glaciers. Polylines bring been overlaid on each glacier aerial icon to exhibit the glacier's size through time, demonstrating how far each glacier has reduced over the years.


Timelapse - aerial imagery of the Mendenhall Glacier inwards 1991 & 2012

Another interesting agency to attempt the loss of glaciers is amongst Google Timelapse. Timelapse allows yous to compare aerial imagery over fourth dimension for whatever place on Earth. You tin hence larn into the mention of whatever glacier into Timelapse as well as notice the effects of global warming for yourself.

Timelapse provides links to the Medenhall Glacier as well as the Columbia Glacier only yous tin purpose the search box to locate whatever glacier. You tin hence purpose Timelapse to search for the vi glaciers used inwards the Disappearing Glaciers map as well as notice the highlighted loss of each glacier for yourself, using the historical aerial imagery.