Comparison of multiple glacier inventories with a new inventory derived from  high-resolution ALOS imagery in the Bhutan Himalaya

Nagai, H.; Fujita, K.; Sakai, A.; Nuimura, T.; Tadono, T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-65-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-65-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-65-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Research article

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18 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 18 Jan 2016

Comparison of multiple glacier inventories with a new inventory derived from high-resolution ALOS imagery in the Bhutan Himalaya

H. Nagai, K. Fujita, A. Sakai, T. Nuimura, and T. Tadono

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SC C441: 'Debris Cover and Bhutan Himalaya glaciers', Mauri Pelto, 10 Apr 2014
- AC C911: 'Author response to a short comment', Hiroto Nagai, 14 Jun 2014
RC C622: 'Referee comment', Frank Paul, 09 May 2014
- AC C912: 'Author response to a referee comment-1', Hiroto Nagai, 14 Jun 2014
RC C666: 'review', Adina Racoviteanu, 17 May 2014
- AC C913: 'Author response to a referee comment-2', Hiroto Nagai, 14 Jun 2014
EC C885: 'Editor Advice', Tobias Bolch, 11 Jun 2014
- AC C914: 'Author response to editor advice', Hiroto Nagai, 14 Jun 2014

Short summary

Digital glacier inventories are invaluable data sets for revealing the characteristics of glacier distribution. However, quantitative comparison of present inventories was not performed. Here, we present a new inventory manually delineated from Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) imagery and compare it with existing inventories for the Bhutan Himalaya. Quantification of overlapping among available glacier outlines suggests consistency and recent improvement of their delineation quality.