The vanishing glacier 'Jamtalferner' between 1820 and 2015
Channel: Severin Hohensinner
Date: 2020-11-17

‘Jamtalferner’ is a large glacier located in Tyrol at the border to Switzerland. The video animation starts in 1820 towards the end of the so-called ‘Little Ice Age’ when the glaciers in the ‘Jamtal’ valley still showed a marked expansion. Around 1860/70 the glaciers reached their largest extents. 
Since then they have been retreating. In the last decades the retreat of the ‘Jamtalferner’ has been accelerating. 

The GIS-based reconstruction of the upper ‘Jamtal’ valley was conducted in the framework of the project ‘Changing debris cover on Eastern Alpine glaciers: quantification and hydrological impacts’ – Hidden.Ice (project leader: Kay Helfricht, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Innsbruck; funding: Earth System Sciences research program (ESS), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)).
Project information: https://www.mountainresearch.at/HiddenIce/

This animation was compiled by Severin Hohensinner (IHG/BOKU Vienna) based on the master thesis from Ulrike Atzler (2021): Veränderung der historischen Landbedeckung im Tiroler Jamtal (Historical change of land cover in the Jamtal, Tyrol).