中国冰川学和冻土学研究40年的回顾与展望(英文)

During the past four decades, breathtaking progress has been achieved in China from almost zero to increasingly advanced stages in glaciology and geocryology. The interactions between the cryosphere and climate are of great concern at present. Studies on the water resources in arid and cold regions, hazards control and cold regions engineering under a warming climate are critically important to the sustainable and concordant development of the regional economies and ecosystems. As a mechanism for the above topics, geographic information sciences have significantly facilitated the data processing and insights into the fledgling cryosphere sciences and therefore, should be expedited.