| dc.description.abstract | The study was done to assess the effect of temperature variation on glaciers on the Rwenzori Mountain range, the data for the research was collected through downloading available data on the temperatures data in different years from 1989 to 2018, the ground data was collected from Uganda Meteorological authority for the neighboring two Districts around Mountain Rwenzori that is Kasese and Kabale to blend the upper air temperature data from the top of glaciers areas. Satellite images were downloaded from the Earthexplorer.usga for three years taking a range of ten years to find the variation of the glaciers coverage on Rwenzori Mountain these images were classified to find the area changes on the glaciers for the different year’s higher resolution of 30 by 30. The results confirm previous works indicating an increasing rate on glaciers retreat and the increasing temperature over Rwenzori Mountains. New findings of this study include: (1) generally, the variability of temperature shows an increasing tendency, majority of the trends of months constantly varying trends with a normally within the months on temperature of on top of the mountain, that are months 0f 43(0.2 ˚C), 164 months up to 1.38˚C and 346(1.22˚C) these are above negative which have greater impacts on the glaciers. Generally, the monthly variation of air temperatures at Rwenzori mountains followed an increasing positive trend at an increasing rate of Rs2 being 0.053, over Kasese the Maximum temperature was increasing are at rate of R^(2 )=0.0164, Minimum R^2=0.3372 and Average R^2=0.1966 and Kabale average temperature was increasing at a rate ofR^2=0.3335. ; (3) the glaciers on three peaks experience rapid retreats with difference between 1989 and 2005 is about 1.44916 sq. km, between 2005 and 2018 is about 0.2232 sq. km and between 1989 and 2018 is about 1.6713 sq.km and the areas covered by glaciers had decreased by about 52.6 % from 1989 and reduces by about 66.01% by 2018.1,it was reducing at the rate of R2 = 0.9189 per year if it continues glaciers are expected to go in to extinction in the next decades with the standard error of 0.2643 ;( 3) the majority of the tourists are above 30 years of age with total frequency of 26 and the percent of the 52 %, followed by 46% of them falling in at the range of 20-29 with 66 % are male and the 34 % account’s female where 67 % of the tourists enjoys their visit to the Rwenzori while participating in hiking and nature walk with 40% ,96% of the tourist faced problems and the 40 percent of the tourist will not visit the Rwenzori again when the glaciers when in to extinction . Overall, these findings are highly meaningful from both theoretical and practical perspectives, in providing critical information in managing glaciers and tourism | en_US |
