Brief communication: Thinning of debris-covered and debris-free glaciers in a warming climate [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 Recent geodetic mass-balance measurements reveal similar thinning rates on glaciers with or without debris cover in the Himalaya–Karakoram region. This comes as a surprise as a thick debris cover reduces the surface melting significantly due to its ...
A. Banerjee
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The Concept of Steady State, Cyclicity and Debris Unloading of Debris-Covered Glaciers [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 It can easily be expected that debris-covered glaciers show a different response on external forcing compared to clean-surface glaciers. The supra-glacial debris cover acts as an additional transfer layer for the energy exchange between atmosphere and ...
Christoph Mayer, Carlo Licciulli
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Including debris cover effects in a distributed model of glacier ablation [PDF]
, 2012 Distributed glacier melt models generally assume that the glacier surface consists of bare exposed ice and snow. In reality, many glaciers are wholly or partially covered in layers of debris that tend to suppress ablation rates.
Andersen +48 more
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Debris cover and surface melt at a temperate maritime alpine glacier: Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2012 Melt rates on glaciers are strongly influenced by the presence of supraglacial debris, which can either enhance or reduce ablation relative to bare ice.
Adhikary S +20 more
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Glacial debris cover and melt water production for glaciers in the Altay, Russia [PDF]
, 2011 Glaciers are important water storages on a seasonal and long-term time scale. Where high mountains are surrounded by arid lowlands, glacier runoff is an important source of water during the growing season.
Hagg, Wilfried +3 more
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Modelling runoff from a Himalayan debris-covered glacier [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2014 Although the processes by which glacial debris mantles alter the melting of glacier ice have been well studied, the mass balance and runoff patterns of Himalayan debris-covered glaciers and the response of these factors to climate change are not well ...
A. Sakai, K. Fujita
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Bacterial Diversity in an Alpine Debris-Free and Debris-Cover Accumulation Zone Glacier Ice, North Sikkim, India. [PDF]
Indian J Microbiol, 2018 Sherpa MT, Najar IN, Das S, Thakur N.
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Representing moisture fluxes and phase changes in glacier debris cover using a reservoir approach [PDF]
, 2014 Due to the complexity of treating moisture in supraglacial debris, surface energy balance models to date have neglected moisture infiltration and phase changes in the debris layer.
Brock, Benjamin +5 more
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Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Currently, about 12 %–13 % of High Mountain Asia’s glacier area is debris-covered, which alters its surface mass balance. However, in regional-scale modelling approaches, debris-covered glaciers are typically treated as clean-ice glaciers, leading to a ...
L. Compagno +15 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Ongoing changes in mountain glaciers affect local water resources, hazard potential and global sea level. An increasing proportion of remaining mountain glaciers are affected by the presence of a surface cover of rock debris, and the response of these ...
Lindsey Nicholson +3 more
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