DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ROCK GLACIER CREEP USING HIGH-RESOLUTION ORTHOIMAGES OF VIRTUAL GLOBES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Rock glaciers are creep phenomena of mountain permafrost and are composed of ice and rocks. Active rock glaciers move downslope by force of gravity. Maximum creep/flow velocities of individual rock glaciers may vary from a few centimeters up to several
V. Kaufmann
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Spatial pattern of glacier mass balance sensitivity to atmospheric forcing in High Mountain Asia
Journal of Glaciology, 2023 The complex topography and size of High Mountain Asia (HMA) result in large differences in glacier mass-balance variability and climate sensitivity.
Anselm Arndt, Christoph Schneider
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Mountain glacier-to-rock glacier transition
Global and Planetary Change, 2019 Abstract In many of the world's high mountain systems, glacier recession in response to climate change is accompanied by a paraglacial response whereby glaciers are undergoing a transition to rock glaciers. We hypothesise that this transition has important implications for hydrological resources in high mountain systems and the surrounding lowlands ...
Darren B. Jones +2 more
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A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 Knowledge about the occurrence and characteristics of surge-type glaciers is crucial due to the impact of surging on glacier melt and glacier-related hazards. One of the super-clusters of surge-type glaciers is High Mountain Asia (HMA).
G. Guillet +7 more
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Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 AbstractGlaciers in High Mountain Asia generate meltwater that supports the water needs of 250 million people, but current knowledge of annual accumulation and ablation is limited to sparse field measurements biased in location and glacier size. Here, we present altitudinally-resolved specific mass balances (surface, internal, and basal combined) for ...
Miles, Evan +5 more
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Projected effects of temperature changes on the Italian Western Tauri glaciers (Eastern Alps)
Journal of Glaciology, 2019 A linear model was used to investigate the behaviour of the Italian Western Tauri glaciers as a result of temperature changes projected for the 21st century.
ROSSANA SERANDREI-BARBERO +2 more
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60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains
Nature Communications, 2022 This study finds that glaciers have existed in the Transantarctic Mountains for the past 60 million years, and that warm-based mountain glaciers were present in Antarctica long before ice sheets came to dominate the continent.
Iestyn D. Barr +9 more
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Sensitivity of very small glaciers in the Swiss Alps to future climate change
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2016 Very small glaciers (
Matthias eHuss +2 more
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A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976–2009 [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2010 The western Nyainqentanglha Range is located in the south-eastern centre of the Tibetan Plateau. Its north-western slopes drain into Lake Nam Co. The region is of special interest for glacio-climatological research as it is influenced by both the ...
T. Bolch +7 more
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