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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 +2 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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Aspect controls the survival of ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 Significance Glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) are important water sources for millions of people downstream. Ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers act as hot spots for melt and may explain anomalously high glacier mass losses in HMA, but their temporal evolution remains unknown, hindering sound parameterizations of these features in ...
Buri P, Pellicciotti F.
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Supraglacial Ice Cliffs Can Substantially Increase the Mass Loss of Debris‐Covered Glaciers
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 The thinning patterns of debris‐covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia are not well understood. Here we calculate the effect of supraglacial ice cliffs on the mass balance of all glaciers in a Himalayan catchment, using a process‐based ice cliff melt ...
Pascal Buri +2 more
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Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2016 Approximately 25 % of the glacierized area in the Everest region is covered by debris, yet the surface mass balance of debris-covered portions of these glaciers has not been measured directly. In this study, ground-based measurements of surface elevation
C. Vincent +10 more
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Classification of debris-covered glaciers and rock glaciers in the Andes of central Chile
Geomorphology, 2015 In the Dry Andes of Chile (17 to 35° S), debris-covered glaciers and rock glaciers are differentiated from true glaciers based on the percentage of surface debris cover, thickness of surface debris, and ice content. Internal ice is preserved by an insulating cover of thick debris, which acts as a storage reservoir to release water during the summer and
Janke, Jason R. +2 more
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An enhanced temperature index model for debris-covered glaciers accounting for thickness effect
Advances in Water Resources, 2016 Francesca Pellicciotti, Ben W Brock
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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 drivers of melt below debris remain poorly understood.
Jakob F. Steiner +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Glacier changes on the Tibetan Plateau are of great importance for regional climate and hydrology and even global ecological changes. It is urgent to understand the effect of climate warming on both clean and debris-covered glaciers on the Tibetan ...
Mingcheng Hu +6 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 +3 more
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