Nonlinear sensitivity of glacier mass balance to future climate change unveiled by deep learning. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Glaciers and ice caps are experiencing strong mass losses worldwide, challenging water availability, hydropower generation, and ecosystems. Here, we perform the first-ever glacier evolution projections based on deep learning by modelling the 21st century
Bolibar J +4 more
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Hot Spots of Glacier Mass Balance Variability in Central Asia. [PDF]
Geophys Res Lett, 2021 The Tien Shan and Pamir mountains host over 28,000 glaciers providing essential water resources for increasing water demand in Central Asia. A disequilibrium between glaciers and climate affects meltwater release to Central Asian rivers, challenging the ...
Barandun M +7 more
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Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance. [PDF]
Geophys Res Lett, 2021 Supraglacial debris affects glacier mass balance as a thin layer enhances surface melting, while a thick layer reduces it. While many glaciers are debris‐covered, global glacier models do not account for debris because its thickness is unknown.
Rounce DR +10 more
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More than a century of direct glacier mass-balance observations on Claridenfirn, Switzerland
Journal of Glaciology, 2021 Glacier mass-balance observations at seasonal resolution have been performed since 1914 at two sites on Claridenfirn, Switzerland. The measurements are the longest uninterrupted records of glacier mass balance worldwide.
Matthias Huss +6 more
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Snowfall Variability Dictates Glacier Mass Balance Variability in Himalaya-Karakoram. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Glaciers in the Himalaya-Karakoram (HK) are critical for ensuring water-security of a large fraction of world’s population that is vulnerable to climate impacts. However, the sensitivity of HK glaciers to changes in meteorological forcing remains largely
Kumar P +5 more
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Journal of Glaciology, 2021 The 2007–19 glaciological mass-balance series of Mera Glacier in the Everest Region, East Nepal, is reanalysed using the geodetic mass balance assessed by differencing two DEMs obtained from Pléiades stereo-images acquired in November 2012 and in October
Patrick Wagnon +10 more
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A decreasing glacier mass balance gradient from the edge of the Upper Tarim Basin to the Karakoram during 2000-2014. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 In contrast to the glacier mass losses observed at other locations around the world, some glaciers in the High Mountains of Asia appear to have gained mass in recent decades.
Lin H, Li G, Cuo L, Hooper A, Ye Q.
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Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early 2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance, existing field records have been extended, field records at new locations have ...
Thomas V. Schuler +14 more
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Summer Mass Balance and Surface Velocity Derived by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on Debris-Covered Region of Baishui River Glacier No. 1, Yulong Snow Mountain [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 Glacier retreat is a common phenomenon in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) with global warming during the past several decades, except for several mountains, such as the glaciers in the Karakoram and the western Kunlun Mountains.
Yanjun Che +4 more
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A long-term mass-balance reconstruction (1974–2021) and a decadal in situ mass-balance record (2011–2021) of Rikha Samba Glacier, central Himalaya [PDF]
Journal of Glaciology, 2023 Despite their importance for regional water resource planning and as indicators of climate change, records of in situ glacier mass balance remain short and spatially sparse in the Himalaya.
Tika Ram Gurung +5 more
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