Assertion: glacier's area | /r/HasProperty | covered by glacier
Facets:
value: in each region
type: LOCATION
value: in the tropics
type: LOCATION
value: with the tidewater basin fractions
type: OTHER
value: between 2016
type: TEMPORAL
value: between 2000
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Geographers, however, are less interested in the area covered by a glacier, and more interested in its mass.
text: Geographers, however, are less interested in the area covered by a glacier, and more interested in its mass.
text: One disadvantage of this method is that when only small areas are covered by glaciers, as is the case in the South American tropics, the satellite only receives a weak signal and the measurement is significantly less accurate.
text: In the first detailed investigation of all Peruvian mountain ranges, a research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has ascertained a drastic reduction of almost 30 percent in the area covered by glaciers between 2000 and 2016.
text: Peru is home to 92 percent of all areas covered by glaciers in the tropics.
text: In this image, which serves as Figure 4-8 in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the size of the green circles depicts total area covered by glaciers in each region with the tidewater basin fractions [TW] shown separately in blue.
text: One disadvantage of this method is that when only small areas are covered by glaciers, as is the case in the South American tropics, the satellite only receives a weak signal and the measurement is significantly less accurate.
text: However, all of these datasets have to be determined in regard to the area covered by glaciers.