Mid-Term Monitoring of Glacier’s Variations with UAVs: The Example of the Belvedere Glacier
Remote Sensing, 2021 Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have opened up unparalleled opportunities for alpine glacier monitoring, as they allow for reconstructing extensive and high-resolution 3D models.
Francesco Ioli +6 more
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Accurate simulation of ice and snow runoff for the mountainous terrain of the Kunlun Mountains, China [PDF]
, 2020 While mountain runoff provides great potential for the development and life quality of downstream populations, it also frequently causes seasonal disasters.
De Maeyer, Philippe +8 more
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Glacier or not? The importance of nuance in definitions of vanishing glaciers
Annals of GlaciologyGlaciers provide critical ecosystem services, including water resources, biodiversity, cultural value and climate signals. But what makes a glacier a glacier? And when is a glacier no longer a glacier? Different glacier definitions can conflict.
Allen Pope
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Glacier Flow in a Curving Channel [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 1987 AbstractThe flow of a glacier along a channel of constant longitudinal curvature is analyzed using analytical and finite-element methods. Channels of various cross–sectional shape are investigated, ranging from a simple rectangular form with zero shear traction along the bed to realistic profiles taken from Blue Glacier, Washington.
Keith Echelmeyer, Kamb Barclay
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Quantifying flow and stress in ice mélange, the world’s largest granular material. [PDF]
, 2018 Tidewater glacier fjords are often filled with a collection of calved icebergs, brash ice, and sea ice. For glaciers with high calving rates, this “m ́elange” of ice can be jam-packed, so that the flow of ice fragments is mostly determined by ...
Amundson, Jason M. +4 more
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Emergence of the Shackleton Range from beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet due to glacial erosion [PDF]
, 2014 This paper explores the long-term evolution of a subglacial fjord landscape in the Shackleton Range, Antarctica. We propose that prolonged ice-sheet erosion across a passive continental margin caused troughs to deepen and lower the surrounding ice-sheet ...
Fogwill, C. J. +5 more
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Some Observations on Glacier Flow [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 1951 AbstractThe excavation of a tunnel by I’Energie Ouest Suisse (EOS) presented inter alia the opportunity to construct a longitudinal profile of the glacier speed and also to observe the speed of the transverse contraction of a circular section. The swift change of shape without fracture was noteworthy.
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GeosciencesGlacier mass balance and ice flow dynamics, strongly influenced by climatic variability, topography, and geological–structural controls, can be precisely characterized through in situ GPS measurements of surface ice velocity, though such data remain ...
Roberto García-Esteban
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Recent structural evolution of Forni Glacier tongue (Ortles-Cevedale Group, Central Italian Alps)
Journal of Maps, 2017 Structural glaciology yields important details about the evolution of glacier dynamics in response to climate change. The maps provided here document the occurrence and evolution of brittle and ductile structures on the tongue of Forni Glacier, Ortles ...
Roberto Sergio Azzoni +8 more
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Surface lowering of the debris-covered area of Kanchenjunga Glacier in the eastern Nepal Himalaya since 1975, as revealed by Hexagon KH-9 and ALOS satellite observations [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2017 This study presents the geodetic mass balance of Kanchenjunga Glacier, one of the largest debris-covered glaciers in the easternmost Nepal Himalaya, which possesses a negative mass balance of −0.18 ± 0.17 m w.e.
D. Lamsal +3 more
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