Global Glacier Extinction Explorer
Glaciologists launched a Global Glacier Extinction Explorer projecting when individual glaciers worldwide will vanish under +1.5°C to +4.0°C warming scenarios.
A study by Van Tricht, Zekollari, and Huss published in Nature Climate Change defines glacier extinction as area below 0.01 km² or remaining volume below 1% of the initial value. The companion web tool combines three glacier models (GloGEM, OGGM, PyGEM) with multiple General Circulation Models and emission scenarios to estimate median extinction years with Q25/Q75 probability ranges. The application, built by K. Van Tricht with assistance from Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-6 Astra, uses an open-source mapping stack (MapLibre GL JS, PMTiles, GeoPandas, GDAL) and draws on the Randolph Glacier Inventory v6.0, with results published on Zenodo.
- Organizations
- VUB
- AI models
- Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-6 Astra
From the original article
2 min read at glacierextinction.comGlacier changes are traditionally quantified in terms of total (regional) mass and area loss, but such metrics do not fully capture the disappearance of individual glaciers. Yet every glacier, no matter how small, can matter. Beyond their contribution to sea-level rise or regional water resources, glaciers hold
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