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 +3 more
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Debris-covered glacier identification in the Karakoram aided by thermal remote sensing [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Glacier changes in the Karakoram Mountain (KM) region were analyzed using Landsat images from 2000 to 2021. Clean ice boundaries were mapped using supervised classification, while debris-covered ice was identified by integrating surface ...
Drolma Lhakpa +4 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.
Rebecca L Stewart +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 +5 more
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New inventory of glaciers in Tajikistan from 3 m PlanetScope imagery (2024): the Tajikistan Glacier Inventory (TGI) [PDF]
Scientific DataGlaciers in Tajikistan serve as a crucial water source in Central Asia. However, existing glacier data products suffer from several limitations, including outdated temporal coverage, coarse spatial resolution, and inadequate mapping of debris-covered ...
Ruonan Li +4 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 +13 more
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Results in Earth SciencesDebris-covered glaciers with complex morphological features, including ice cliffs and supraglacial lakes, remain relatively understudied in the Himalaya.
Sarvagya Vatsal +12 more
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Remote SensingDebris-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.
Teng Li, Wang Yongjie, Chuanxi Zhao
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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 +5 more
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