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Volume 9 Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change Climate Congress 2018
August 06-07, 2018
August 06-07, 2018 Osaka, Japan
4th World Congress on
Climate Change and Global Warming
Mukhtar Yusubovich Bekkiev, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C3-045
Degradation of glaciation of the slopes of Mount Elbrus due to climate change
Mukhtar Yusubovich Bekkiev
High-Mountain Geophysical Institute, Russia
The major node of the glaciation of the Caucasus Mountains - Elbrus (5642 m) in Russia continues to be explored in terms
of global climate change. According to the results of such works, the dynamics of the change in the Elbrus glaciers at the
end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries is given. The Figure-1 shows how glaciers have degraded over the period
1957-2015. The data are obtained as a result of comparison of aerial photographs since 1957 and space images of Canopus-B1,
Pleiades, GeoEye of different years. The process of degradation of Elbrus glaciation proceeds unevenly in time and space. In
the 20th century, periods of retreat and increase of glaciers have been replaced several times. The glaciers of the northeastern
foothills of Elbrus considerably decreased in size. The total decrease in the area of glaciers during this time was almost 15%, the
position of the snow line on the glaciers changed drastically. When the Elbrus glaciers recede, the directions of the glacial water
flow change and new glacial lakes form, the relief changes and the more frequent dangerous hydro meteorological phenomena
become more pronounced. Based on the data of weather stations, data are given on the temperature change and some other
climatic parameters.
Biography
Mukhtar Yusubovich Bekkiev has worked for a long time at universities and was the Head of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering. He is an expert on the
safety of structures. For several years he has been the Director of a High-Mountain Geophysical Institute, Russia. His area of scientific interests is in geography,
mechanics, safety of natural objects and structures under various force impacts.