Kilimanjaro Publications

• Hardy, D.R. and others, in preparation. The climate of Kilimanjaro's Northern Icefield [a summit climatology, based upon our 10 years of measurements].

• Kaser, G., T. Mölg, N. J. Cullen, D. R. Hardy, and M. Winkler, 2010. Is the decline of ice on Kilimanjaro unprecedented in the Holocene? The Holocene, First published on July 19, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0959683610369498

• Winkler, M., G. Kaser, N.J. Cullen, T. Mölg, D.R. Hardy, and W. Tad Pfeffer, 2010. Land-based marginal ice cliffs: focus on Kilimanjaro. Erdkunde, v. 64, no. 2, pp 179-193, 10.3112/erdkunde.2010.02.05

• Thompson, L.G., H.H. Brecher, E. Mosley-Thompson, D.R. Hardy, and B.G. Mark. Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro is consistent with widespread ice loss in low latitudes. Response to Mölg, T., G. Kaser, and N.J. Cullen, Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro is an exceptional case. Submitted Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (2010).

• Pepin, N.C., W.J. Duane, and D.R. Hardy. The montane thermal circulation on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and its influence on the summit ice fields: comparison of surface mountain climate with equivalent free air parameters. Submitted to Global and Planetary Change, (2010).

• Thompson, L.G., H.H. Brecher, E. Mosley-Thompson, D.R. Hardy, and B.G. Mark, 2009. Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro continues unabated. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 106:19770-19775, doi:10.1073/pnas.0906029106.

• Mölg, T., N.J. Cullen, D.R. Hardy, M. Winkler, and G. Kaser, 2009. Quantifying climate change in the tropical midtroposphere over East Africa from glacier shrinkage on Kilimanjaro. Journal of Climate, v. 22, pp. 4162-4181. DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2954.1

• Mölg, T., D.R. Hardy, N.J. Cullen, and G. Kaser, 2008. Tropical glaciers, climate change, and society: Focus on Kilimanjaro (East Africa). In: Orlove, B., E. Wiegandt, and B. Luckman (eds.): Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society. California University Press: Berkley, London. p. 168-182.

• Duane, W.J., N.C. Pepin, M.L. Losleben, and D.R. Hardy, 2008. General characteristics of temperature and humidity variability on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, v. 40, no. 2, pp. 323-334.

• Chan, R.Y., M. Vuille, D.R. Hardy, and R.S. Bradley, 2008. Intraseasonal precipitation variability on Kilimanjaro and the East African region and its relationship to the large-scale circulation. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, v. 93, p. 149-165. doi:10.1007/s00704-007-0338-9.

• Mölg, T., N.J. Cullen, D.R. Hardy, G. Kaser, and L. Klok, 2008. Mass balance of a slope glacier on Kilimanjaro and its sensitivity to climate. International Journal of Climatology, v. 28, pp. 881-892.

• Cullen, N.J., T. Mölg, D.R. Hardy, K. Steffen, and G. Kaser, 2007. Energy balance model validation on the top of Kilimanjaro using eddy correlation data. Annals of Glaciology, 46, 227-233.

• Hardy, D.R., 2007. Snow and Ice on Kilimanjaro. Ice and Climate, WCRP/SCAR Climate and Cryosphere Newsletter. CliC Int. Project Office, Tromsø, Norway. p. 16.

• Cullen, N.J., T. Mölg, G. Kaser, K. Hussein, K. Steffen, and D.R. Hardy, 2006. Kilimanjaro Glaciers: Recent areal glacier extent from satellite data and new interpretation of observed 20th century retreat rates. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L16502, doi:10.1029/2006GL027084.

• Mölg, T. and D.R. Hardy, 2004. Ablation and associated energy balance on a horizontal glacier surface on Kilimanjaro. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 109, D16104, doi:10.1029/2003JD004338.

• Kaser, G., D.R. Hardy, T. Mölg, R.S. Bradley, and T.M. Hyera, 2004. Modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro as evidence of climate change: Observations and facts. International Journal of Climatology, 24, 329-339, doi: 10.1002/joc.1008

• Hardy, D.R., 2003. Kilimanjaro snow, in State of the Climate in 2002, edited by A. M. Waple and J. H. Lawrimore, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, S48.

• Mölg, T., D.R. Hardy, and G. Kaser, 2003. Solar-radiation-maintained glacier recession on Kilimanjaro drawn from combined ice-radiation geometry modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 108 (D23), 4731, doi:10.1029/2003JD003546.

• Hardy, D.R., 2002. Eternal ice and snow? In Kilimanjaro: to the roof of Africa, A. Salkeld, National Geographic Society, p. 224-225. (Nice reference book; used copies are inexpensive (e.g., for Amazon, click here))

• Thompson, L.G., E. Mosley-Thompson, M.E. Davis, K.A. Henderson, H. Brecher, V.S. Zagorodnov, P-N. Lin, T. Mashiotta, V.N. Mikhalenko, D.R. Hardy, and J. Beer, 2002. Kilimanjaro ice core records: Evidence of Holocene climate change in tropical Africa. Science, v. 298, no. 5593, p. 589-593.  To accompany above: SOM

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