Small glaciers on the Balkan Peninsula: State and changes in the last several years

For the last 10 years all small glaciers of the Balkans have shown considerable inter-annual variations of their size. Observed fluctuations have been quite synchronous in the three studied mountains. In a long-term sense, no trend has been registered towards shrinkage or increase. Analyses of climatic data have shown a considerable relation between glacier size and summer temperature, and winter precipitation is a second factor.