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Supraglacial geomorphology of Companion Glacier, central Himalaya: evolution, controls and consequences

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Supraglacial debris cover greatly influences glacier dynamics. The present study combines field and remote sensing observations acquired between 2000 and 2020 to understand debris characteristics, area and terminus changes, surface velocity, and mass ...
Purushottam Kumar Garg, Manish Mehta, Aparna Shukla, Pankaj Chauhan, Kapil Kesarwani, Sandipan Mukherjee   +5 more
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Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of supraglacial pools on a debris-covered glacier in Mt. Gongga, Tibetan Plateau

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020
Meltwater habitats are found on glacier surfaces worldwide, but much of the current understanding of these habitats comes from clean glaciers sprinkled with cryoconite.
Heather Fair, Peter C. Smiley, Liu Qiao
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Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2023
Multi-temporal glacier inventories provide key information about the glaciers, their characteristics, and changes and are inevitable for glacier modelling and investigating geodetic mass changes.
F. Xie, F. Xie, S. Liu, S. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Gao, Y. Gao, Y. Zhu, Y. Zhu, T. Bolch, A. Kääb, S. Duan, S. Duan, W. Miao, W. Miao, J. Kang, J. Kang, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Pan, X. Pan, C. Qin, C. Qin, K. Wu, K. Wu, M. Qi, M. Qi, X. Zhang, X. Zhang, Y. Yi, Y. Yi, F. Han, F. Han, X. Yao, Q. Liu, X. Wang, Z. Jiang, D. Shangguan, Y. Zhang, R. Grünwald, M. Adnan, M. Adnan, J. Karki, J. Karki, M. Saifullah   +44 more
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Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia

Communications Earth & Environment, 2022
Supraglacial debris in High-Mountain Asia is extensively thin and its supply rate from local topography increases with the temperature and slope of debris-supply slopes, according to analyses of remote sensing data from over 4600 glaciers.
Michael McCarthy, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger, Francesca Pellicciotti   +5 more
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Ablation Patterns of the Debris Covered Tongue of Halong Glacier Revealed by Short Term Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Surveys

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Debris-covered glaciers are an important glacier type and have attracted more and more attention. This study presents the results of ablation patterns of debris-covered tongue of the Halong Glacier in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, by using two ...
Wanqin Guo, Xiaojun Guo, Yushuo Liu, Jing Li, Donghui Shangguan, Liqun Chen, Jin Ga   +6 more
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DebDaB: a database of supraglacial debris thickness and physical properties [PDF]

Earth System Science Data
Rocky debris covers around 7.3 % of the global glacier area, influencing ice melt rates and the surface mass balance of glaciers, making the dynamics and hydrology of debris-covered glaciers distinct from those of clean-ice glaciers.
A. Fontrodona-Bach, L. Groeneveld, E. Miles, E. Miles, E. Miles, M. McCarthy, M. McCarthy, M. McCarthy, T. Shaw, V. Melo Velasco, F. Pellicciotti, F. Pellicciotti   +11 more
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Supraglacial debris thickness variability: impact on ablation and relation to terrain properties [PDF]

The Cryosphere, 2018
Shallow ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys are used to characterize the small-scale spatial variability of supraglacial debris thickness on a Himalayan glacier. Debris thickness varies widely over short spatial scales.
L. I. Nicholson, M. McCarthy, M. McCarthy, H. D. Pritchard, I. Willis   +4 more
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Changes in glacier surface cover on Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, north Pakistan, 2001–2012

Journal of Maps, 2017
The presence of supraglacial debris on glaciers in the Himalaya-Karakoram affects the ablation rate of these glaciers and their response to climatic change. To understand how supraglacial debris distribution and associated surface features vary spatially
M. J. Gibson, N. F. Glasser, D. J. Quincey, A. V. Rowan, T. D. Irvine-Fynn   +4 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 Linsbauer, Andreas Linsbauer, Matthias Huss, Matthias Huss, Matthias Huss, Elias Hodel, Elias Hodel, Andreas Bauder, Andreas Bauder, Mauro Fischer, Mauro Fischer, Yvo Weidmann, Hans Bärtschi, Emanuel Schmassmann   +13 more
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Distribution and interannual variability of supraglacial lakes on debris-covered glaciers in the Khan Tengri-Tumor Mountains, Central Asia

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
Supraglacial lakes are widely formed on debris-covered glaciers in the Khan Tengri-Tumor Mountains (KTTM), Tianshan, Central Asia. Study of their distribution characters based on regional-wide remote sensing investigations is still lacking, but it can ...
Liu Qiao, Christoph Mayer, Shiyin Liu
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