Evaluation of the Global Glacier Inventories and Assessment of Glacier Thickness Changes over North-western Himalaya
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Abstract. The study evaluates the global glacier inventories available for area viz., RGI, GAMDAM and ICIMOD, with newly generated Kashmir University Glacier Inventory (KUGI) three Himalaya basins; Jhelum, Suru Chenab in north-western Himalaya, comprising of 2096 glaciers spread over an 3300 km2. KUGI was prepared from Landsat data supplemented by Digital Elevation Model, Google Earth images limited field surveys. comprises 154 328 1614 basin, corresponding to 85.9 ± 11.4 km2, 487 ± 16.2 km2 2727 ± 90.2 km2 respectively. investigation revealed that most are http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4461799 (Romshoo et al., 2021).
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عنوان ژورنال: Earth System Science Data Discussions
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1866-3591']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4461799