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...

Traditional glaciological mass balance measurements of mountain glaciers are a demanding and cost intensive task. In this study, we combine data from the Ice Cloud and Elevation Satellite (ICESat) acquired between 2003 and 2009 with air and space borne Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in order to derive surface elevation changes of the Grosser Aletschgletscher in the Swiss Alps. Three different ...

Observational evidence indicates that a number of glaciers have lost mass in the past. Given that glaciers are highly impacted by the surrounding climate, human-influenced global warming may be partly responsible for mass loss. However, previous research studies have been limited to analyzing the past several decades, and it remains unclear whether past glacier mass losses are within the range ...

Terminus fluctuation and area change in mountain glaciers in the middle Chinese Tien Shan over the past four decades are examined, based on Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS), Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Système Probatoire pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) highresolution visible (HRV) imagery, topographical maps and China Glacier Inventory data using Geographical Information Syst...

Glaciers are highly sensitive to climate change and undergoing significant changes in mid-latitudes. In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal of typical glaciers their responses period 1990–2015 4 different mountainous sub-regions Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Northwest China: Bogda Peak Karlik Mountain Tianshan Mountains; Yinsugaiti Glacier sub-region Karakorum Youyi Altay Mountains. T...

Over the past two decades Iceland’s glaciers have been undergoing a phase of accelerated retreat set against a backdrop of warmer summers and milder winters. This paper demonstrates how the dynamics of a steep outlet glacier in maritime SE Iceland have changed as it adjusts to recent significant changes in mass balance. Geomorphological evidence from Falljökull, a high-mass turnover temperate g...

In the Northern Hemisphere, most mountain glaciers experienced their largest extent in the last millennium during the Little Ice Age (1450 to 1850 CE, LIA), a period marked by colder hemispheric temperatures than the Medieval Climate Anomaly (950 to 1250 CE, MCA), a period which coincided with glacier retreat. Here, we present a new moraine chronology based on (36)Cl surface exposure dating fro...

A comprehensive glacier–glacial lake inventory was developed for the Bhutan Himalayas based on satellite observations between 1987–1990 and 2006–2011. In total, 733 lakes (covering 82.6 km2) were delineated between 4000 and 6000 m a.s.l. and their relationships to associated glaciers were documented. Using this new inventory, the scale and potential for glacial lake outburst flooding (GLOF) bas...

Glacial polish, grooves, and striations discovered at an elevation of 1370 meters in the headwaters of Boone Fork on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, indicate the former, existence of alpine glaciation at a latitude of 36 degrees 07'N. The Boone Fork glacier was located 890 kilometers south of the previously recognized southern limit of alpine glaciation in the Appalachian Mountains, and 3...

Abstract. There have been rapid increases in both the number and expansion of proglacial lakes across High Mountain Asia. However, relationship between glacier dynamics remains unclear Himalayan region. Here we present surface elevation, flow-velocity changes, lake Thorthormi Lugge glaciers Lunana region, Bhutanese Himalaya, during 2000–2018 period using photogrammetry GPS survey data. The lowe...