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Distributed Melt on a Debris-Covered Glacier: Field Observations and Melt Modeling on the Lirung Glacier in the Himalaya [PDF]

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Debris-covered glaciers, especially in high-mountain Asia, have received increased attention in recent years. So far, few field-based observations of distributed mass loss exist and both the properties of the debris layer as well as the atmospheric ...
Jakob F. Steiner, Jakob F. Steiner, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Walter W. Immerzeel   +3 more
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Volume-area scaling for debris-covered glaciers [PDF]

Journal of Glaciology, 2020
A volume-area scaling relation is commonly used to estimate glacier volume or its future changes on a global scale. The presence of an insulating supraglacial debris cover alters the mass-balance profile of a glacier, potentially modifying the scaling ...
Argha Banerjee
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Geomorphological evolution of a debris‐covered glacier surface [PDF]

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2020
AbstractThere exists a need to advance our understanding of debris‐covered glacier surfaces over relatively short timescales due to rapid, climatically induced areal expansion of debris cover at the global scale, and the impact debris has on mass balance.
Matthew J Westoby, David R Rounce, Thomas E Shaw   +2 more
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Impact of debris cover on glacier ablation and atmosphere–glacier feedbacks in the Karakoram [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2015
The Karakoram range of the Hindu-Kush Himalaya is characterized by both extensive glaciation and a widespread prevalence of surficial debris cover on the glaciers.
E. Collier, F. Maussion, L. I. Nicholson, T. Mölg, W. W. Immerzeel, A. B. G. Bush   +5 more
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Controls on Ice Cliff Distribution and Characteristics on Debris‐Covered Glaciers

Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
Ice cliff distribution plays a major role in determining the melt of debris‐covered glaciers but its controls are largely unknown. We assembled a data set of 37,537 ice cliffs and determined their characteristics across 86 debris‐covered glaciers within ...
Marin Kneib, Catriona L. Fyffe, Evan S. Miles, Shayna Lindemann, Thomas E. Shaw, Pascal Buri, Michael McCarthy, Boris Ouvry, Andreas Vieli, Yota Sato, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Chuanxi Zhao, Peter Molnar, Francesca Pellicciotti   +13 more
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Understanding the point mass balance and surface ice velocity for the debris-covered glacier, Panchi II, western Himalaya (India)

Results in earth sciences
Debris-covered glaciers with complex morphological features, including ice cliffs and supraglacial lakes, remain relatively understudied in the Himalaya.
Sarvagya Vatsal
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Contrasting Changes of Debris-Free Glacier and Debris-Covered Glacier in Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing
Debris-free and debris-covered glaciers are both extensively present in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. High-precision and rigorous comparative observational studies on different types of glaciers help us to accurately understand the overall state of water resource variability and the underlying mechanisms.
Chuanxi Zhao, Teng Li, Zhao Chuanxi
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Debris cover and the thinning of Kennicott Glacier, Alaska: in situ measurements, automated ice cliff delineation and distributed melt estimates [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2021
Many glaciers are thinning rapidly beneath melt-reducing debris cover, including Kennicott Glacier in Alaska where glacier-wide maximum thinning also occurs under debris.
L. S. Anderson, L. S. Anderson, W. H. Armstrong, W. H. Armstrong, R. S. Anderson, P. Buri   +5 more
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Debris Emergence Elevations and Glacier Change

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Debris-covered glaciers represent potentially significant stores of freshwater in river basins throughout High Mountain Asia (HMA). Direct glacier mass balance measurements are extremely difficult to maintain on debris-covered glaciers, and optical ...
Joseph M. Shea, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Walter W. Immerzeel, Fanny Brun   +3 more
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Internal structure and water routing of an ice-debris landform assemblage using multiple geophysical methods in the semiarid Andes

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Rock glaciers are the most abundant (peri) glacial landform in the semiarid Andes (SA, 29–34°S), covering about three times the area of mountain glaciers.
Gonzalo Navarro, Gonzalo Navarro, Rémi Valois, Shelley MacDonell, Shelley MacDonell, Giulia de Pasquale, Juan Pablo Díaz   +6 more
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