Kilimanjaro Publications

• Hardy, D.R. and others, in preparation. The climate of Kilimanjaro's Northern Icefield [a summit climatology, based upon our 15 years of measurements].

• Pepin, N.C., W.J. Duane, M. Schaefer, G. Pike, and D.R. Hardy, 2014. Measuring and modeling the retreat of the summit ice fields on Kilimanjaro, East Africa.. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, v. 46, p. 905-917. doi: 10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.905

• Mölg, T., N.J. Cullen, D.R. Hardy, G. Kaser, L. Nicholson, R. Prinz, and M. Winkler, 2013. East African glacier loss and climate change: Corrections to the UNEP article “Africa without ice and snow”. Environmental Development, in press. doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2013.02.001

• Hardy, D.R., 2011. High-elevation weather stations on glaciers in the Tropics – 2011 update. In: Tijm-Reijmer, C.H. and J. Oerlemans (eds.) Workshop on the use of automatic measuring systems on glaciers. Extended abstracts and recommendations (Proceedings of a IASC Workshop, 23-26 March 2011, Pontresina (Switzerland), p. 45-48.

• Hardy, D.R., 2011. Kilimanjaro. In: Singh, V.P., P. Singh, and U.K. Haritashya (eds.) Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Dordrecht: Springer, p. 672-679.

• Pepin, N.C., W.J. Duane, and D.R. Hardy, 2010. The montane circulation on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and its relevance for the summit ice fields: comparison of surface mountain climate with equivalent reanalysis parameters. Global and Planetary Change, v. 74, p. 61-75, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.08.001

• 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, v. 20, p. 1079-1091, doi:10.1177/0959683610369498

• Thompson, L.G., H.H. Brecher, E. Mosley-Thompson, D.R. Hardy, and B.G. Mark, 2010. 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. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., v. 107, E69-E70, doi:10.1073/pnas.1001999107

• 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, p. 179-193, doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2010.02.05

• 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, p. 4162-4181. doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2954.1

• 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., v. 106, p. 19770-19775, doi:10.1073/pnas.0906029106

• 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

• 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, p. 323-334, doi:10.1657/1523-0430(06-127)[DUANE]2.0.CO;2

• 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.

• 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, p. 881-892.

• 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, 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, v. 46, p. 227-233.

• 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, v. 33, p. 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, v. 109, p. 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, v. 24, p. 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, v. 84, p. 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, v. 108 (D23), p. 4731-4741, 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. (Plain-text version here. 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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