What does WGMS stand for?

World Glacier Monitoring Service

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Worldwide glaciers are shrinking three times faster than in the 1970s and the average glacier has lost 25 feet of ice since 1997, said Michael Zemp, a researcher at World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Global climate change accelerates in dozen years since Kyoto accord

Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto

In 2008, the World Glacier Monitoring Service reported that glaciers in some regions of the world were melting away at a rate of more than a meter a year recently.

United States : iPhone app helps track climate change

The World Glacier Monitoring Service In 1986 the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) initiated the maintenance and collection of data on ongoing glacier changes.

The heat is on: the countdown has begun. The Alpine glaciers and the ...

Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto

Glaciers are like a bank,' says Professor Wilfried Haeberli, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service.

Melting glaciers start countdown to climate chaos

Glacial melting is a global problem, according to the Zurich-based World Glacier Monitoring Service, which keeps tabs on 30 ice sheets in nine mountain ranges worldwide and says their average mass is steadily eroding.

Alps' glaciers disappearing

The World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich regularly measures 80 glaciers around the globe.

Swiss scientists say world's glaciers melting fast