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Bulletin of Glaciological Research 21 (2004)
57-64
©Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
Glaciological observations on the plateau of Belukha Glacier in the Altai Mountains, Russia from 2001 to 2003.
Koji FUJITA1, Nozomu TAKEUCHI2, Vladimir AIZEN3 and Stanislav NIKITIN4
1 Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, c/o Hydrospheric?Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya 464?8601, Japan.
2 Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 335 Takashimacho, Kamigyo?ku, Kyoto 602?0878, Japan
3 College of Mines and Earth Resources, P.O. Box 443025, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844?3025, USA
4 Glacio?Climatological Laboratory, 36 Lenina Str., Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Abstract
In order to reconstruct past climate and environment changes from ice cores, the US-Russia-Japan joint research was carried out on the west plateau of Belukha Glacier in the Altai Mountains from 2001 to 2003. After two years reconnaissance researches, an ice core to the bottom (171 m) was successfully extracted in August 2003. We report in this paper the observational results during 3 years (2001-2003) with respect to mass balance, changes in surface level, surface flow velocities, meteorological and climatological data, and pits.
