An updated inventory of rock glaciers in the Eastern Himalaya [PDF]
Scientific DataRock glacier inventories offer essential baseline information for assessing mountain permafrost, hydrological storage, and climate change impacts in high mountain regions.
Shijun Wang +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 However, existing glacier data products suffer from several limitations, including outdated temporal coverage, coarse spatial resolution, and inadequate mapping of debris-covered ...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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The GAMDAM glacier inventory: a quality-controlled inventory of Asian glaciers [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2015 We present a new glacier inventory for high-mountain Asia named "Glacier Area Mapping for Discharge from the Asian Mountains" (GAMDAM). Glacier outlines were delineated manually using 356 Landsat ETM+ scenes in 226 path-row sets from the period 1999–2003,
T. Nuimura +12 more
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The New Swiss Glacier Inventory SGI2016: From a Topographical to a Glaciological Dataset
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Glaciers in Switzerland are shrinking rapidly in response to ongoing climate change. Repeated glacier inventories are key to monitor such changes at the regional scale. Here we present the new Swiss Glacier Inventory 2016 (SGI2016) that has been acquired
Andreas Bauder +2 more
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The Glacier Inventory Dataset of the Qilian Mountains for the Period 2018–2019 [PDF]
Scientific DataThe Qilian Mountains are located in the arid region of northwestern China and represent a vital ecological functional zone in this area. Glaciers in the Qilian Mountains, as the primary source of freshwater, play a crucial role in regulating the regional
Xiang Qin +4 more
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The First Rock Glacier Inventory for the Greater Caucasus
Geosciences (Switzerland), 2023 Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At the regional scale in the Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess the distribution of rock glaciers, although some individual parts of ranges ...
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Geosciences (Switzerland), 2017 A comprehensive glacier–glacial lake inventory was developed for the Bhutan Himalayas based on satellite observations between 1987–1990 and 2006–2011. In total, 733 lakes (covering 82.6 km2) were delineated between 4000 and 6000 m a.s.l.
Hiroto Nagai +2 more
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Glacier inventory and recent glacier variations in the Andes of Chile, South America [PDF]
Annals of Glaciology, 2017 The first satellite-derived inventory of glaciers and rock glaciers in Chile, created from Landsat TM/ETM+ images spanning between 2000 and 2003 using a semi-automated procedure, is presented in a single standardized format.
Gonzalo Barcaza +7 more
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A new inventory of High Mountain Asia surging glaciers derived from multiple elevation datasets since the 1970s [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2023 Glacier surging is an unusual instability of ice flow, and inventories of surging glaciers are important for regional glacier mass balance studies and glacier dynamic studies. Glacier surges in High Mountain Asia (HMA) have been widely reported. However,
L. Guo +5 more
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An Assessment of Glacier Inventories for the Third Pole Region
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 A glacier inventory contains data that are important for understanding the hydrology, water resources, and impacts of climate change in glaciated regions.
Xia He +3 more
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