mountain glaciers
Recent changes in area and thickness of Torngat Mountain glaciers (northern Labrador, Canada)
... small glaciers: the only remaining glaciers in continental northeast North ...cirque glaciers exist in a unique topo- climatic setting, experiencing temperate maritime summer conditions yet very cold ...
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ICESat laser altimetry over small mountain glaciers
... ICESat data points from the end of the hydrological year (autumn campaigns) are treated as a statistical sample of glacier surface elevations in southern Norway. We follow the double differencing method described by Kääb ...
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The Northeast Asia mountain glaciers in the near future by AOGCM scenarios
... To complement the sparse meteorological-station data for high elevations (above 1000 m), we used the accumulation at the mean ELA for the each glacier group (10–15 glaciers), which was calculated from the Glacier ...
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Estimating the volume of glaciers in the Himalayan–Karakoram region using different methods
... for mountain glaciers should preferably take slope directly into account since these glaciers typically have slopes steeper than the global ...
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From Doktor Kurowski’s Schneegrenze to our modern glacier equilibrium line altitude (ELA)
... present-day glaciers with measured surface mass-balance ...valley glaciers, but not significantly higher for 34 mountain ...many glaciers, as suggested by sev- eral workers, but some ...
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An upper-bound estimate for the accuracy of glacier volume–area scaling
... of mountain glaciers and ice caps to future sea level rise in the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is based thereupon ...
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Present Glaciers of Tavan Bogd Mountain Massif and Their Changes Since the LIA
... time, glaciers also act like an important climatic factor themselves, influencing the overall albedo of the ...Earth. Mountain glaciers, being more vulnerable to climate change than ice sheets, are ...
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“Himalayan catchment”
... 1981). Glaciers in these regions are in a general state of recession since the 1850’s (Mayewski and Jeschke, 1979; Vohra, 1981; Dobhal et ...these glaciers con- tinue to recede, its impact on major ...
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Impacts of Modern Glacier Changes on Surface Water Resources in Western and Northern Mongolia
... Khuvsgul Mountain Ranges (Figure ...Today, glaciers occur in only a few mountains of the Altai, Khangai and Khuvsgul Mountain ...hanging glaciers along the mountain slopes and crests of ...
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Economic Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources
... of mountain glaciers, shrinkage of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets through faster flow of land-orig- inated ice into the ocean, and, primarily in Greenland, increasing surface melting and ...
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Peculiar Characteristics of Fragmentation of Glaciers: A Case Study of Western Himalaya, India
... two glaciers due to the deglaciation during the monitoring period of 1962 and ...the glaciers have not shown any ...tributary glaciers respectively (Figure ...
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Spatial variability in mass loss of glaciers in the everest region, central Himalayas, between 2000 and 2015
... of glaciers in our sample. Such an approach is most appropriate for glaciers in a state of balanced mass budget (Braithwaite and Raper, 2010; Braithwaite, 2015); thus the ELA estimates produced using this ...
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Thermal remote sensing of ice-debris landforms using ASTER: an example from the Chilean Andes
... ing mountain permafrost and ground thermal conditions or mapping rock glaciers and debris-covered ...in mountain cryospheric research, fo- cusing on the relationships between ground surface temper- ...
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Surface motion of active rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: inventory and a case study using InSAR
... Practically, the ALOS PALSAR data are too short for monitoring long-term changes in rock glacier flow as the satellite was in operation for only five years from late 2006 to early 2011. Nonetheless, our study strongly ...
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Seasonal to decadal variability in ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet
... northernmost glaciers (Steensby, ...small glaciers near the central eastern margin were too sparse to derive a continuous time series and we instead estimate an annual D for these ...
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Debris thickness of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from satellite imagery using a nonlinear energy balance model
... Foster et al. (2012) is the first study, to the authors’ knowl- edge, that accurately derives debris thickness from satellite imagery. The model uses a digital elevation model (DEM) generated from an airborne lidar ...
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Quantifying ice loss in the eastern Himalayas since 1974 using declassified spy satellite imagery
... of glaciers in the monsoonal Himalayas and highlight simi- larities and differences in the decadal responses of clean, debris-covered, and calving ...debris-covered glaciers show simi- lar negative geodetic ...
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Calving glaciers and ice shelves
... calving glaciers and ice sheets make a large contribution to sea-level rise, but much uncertainty remains about future ice sheet response to alternative carbon ...
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IACS: past, present, and future of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
... in glaciers and permanent snow fields (Hoinkes, ...of glaciers were selected to represent all major climatic conditions, and standard measurements which could be compared with one another were undertaken ...
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Modeling debris-covered glaciers: response to steady debris deposition
... debris-covered glaciers. While real debris- covered glaciers may not reach steady state the concept is necessary for determining the sensitivity of debris-covered glaciers to changes in ...
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