Glacier shrinkage across High Mountain Asia

Glacier shrinkage across High Mountain Asia

An assessment of glacier shrinkage (reduction of area) for all of HighMountain Asia requires a complete compilation of measured rates of change and also a methodology for objective comparison of rates. I present a compilation from 155 publications reporting glacier area changes, and also a methodology that overcomes the main obstacles hindering comparison. Glacier areas are not always assigned ...

A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances, 2000-2016

High Mountain Asia hosts the largest glacier concentration outside the polar regions. These glaciers are important contributors to streamflow in one of the most populated areas of the world. Past studies have used methods that can only provide regionally-averaged glacier mass balances to assess the High Mountain Asia glacier contribution to rivers and sea level rise. Here we compute the mass ba...

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems.

Glaciers cover ∼10% of the Earth's land surface, but they are shrinking rapidly across most parts of the world, leading to cascading impacts on downstream systems. Glaciers impart unique footprints on river flow at times when other water sources are low. Changes in river hydrology and morphology caused by climate-induced glacier loss are projected to be the greatest of any hydrological system, ...

Mountain glaciers of NE Asia in the near future: a projection based on climate-glacier systems’ interaction

Localization of mountain glacier termini in Landsat multi-spectral images

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2012.07.003 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Biostatis Health, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (N.N. Kacho This paper addresses the quantification of glacier retreat through remote sensing. Specifically, we use multi-spectral Landsat satellite images for the estimation of glacier termi...