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Research article
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11 Dec 2017
Research article |
| 11 Dec 2017
Surface lowering of the debris-covered area of Kanchenjunga Glacier in the eastern Nepal Himalaya since 1975, as revealed by Hexagon KH-9 and ALOS satellite observations
Damodar Lamsal
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
now at: Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd., Kanagawa 215-0004, Japan
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
Akiko Sakai
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
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- Automated Processing of Declassified KH-9 Hexagon Satellite Images for Global Elevation Change Analysis Since the 1970s A. Dehecq et al.
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- Modelling seasonal fluctuations and aspect characteristics of ice-cliff melt on the debris-covered Trakarding Glacier, Rolwaling Valley, Nepal Himalaya Y. Sato et al.
- Ice Cliff Dynamics of Debris-Covered Trakarding Glacier in the Rolwaling Region, Nepal Himalaya Y. Sato et al.
- Automated Processing of Declassified KH-9 Hexagon Satellite Images for Global Elevation Change Analysis Since the 1970s A. Dehecq et al.
- Heterogeneity in glacier thinning and slowdown of ice movement in the Garhwal Himalaya, India R. Bhambri et al.
- Ice cliff contribution to the tongue-wide ablation of Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal, central Himalaya F. Brun et al.
- Agricultural Land Abandonment in Bulgaria: A Long-Term Remote Sensing Perspective, 1950–1980 M. Kabadayı et al.
- Contrasting thinning patterns between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Bhutanese Himalaya S. Tsutaki et al.
- Unravelling the evolution of Zmuttgletscher and its debris cover since the end of the Little Ice Age N. Mölg et al.
- Debris cover and the thinning of Kennicott Glacier, Alaska: in situ measurements, automated ice cliff delineation and distributed melt estimates L. Anderson et al.
- Estimating the Changes in Glaciers and Glacial Lakes in the Xixabangma Massif, Central Himalayas, between 1974 and 2018 from Multisource Remote Sensing Data Y. Wang et al.
- Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes from 1990 to 2020 in the Himalaya–Karakoram Region Using Cloud-Based Google Earth Engine Platform R. Sahu et al.
- A dataset of simulated sequences of glacier mass balance in the Kanchenjunga Basin during 1990–2018 F. ZHANG et al.
- Spatiotemporal variability of glacier changes and their controlling factors in the Kanchenjunga region, Himalaya based on multi-source remote sensing data from 1975 to 2015 X. Zhao et al.
- Rock glaciers and the geomorphological evolution of deglacierizing mountains J. Knight et al.
- Quantifying Geodetic Mass Balance of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields Since 1976 M. McDonnell et al.
- Long-term analysis of glaciers and glacier lakes in the Central and Eastern Himalaya V. Agarwal et al.
- Climate change and its impacts on glaciers and glacial lakes in Nepal Himalayas N. Khadka et al.
- Evolution of glacier mass balance and surface velocity in response to climate change in Eastern Himalaya using landsat imageries P. Das et al.
- Century-Scale Earth Observation: Systematic Review of Georeferencing Methods for Historical Aerial and Satellite Imagery W. Liu & D. Yang
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Short summary
This study presents the geodetic mass balance of Kanchenjunga Glacier, a heavily debris-covered glacier in the easternmost Nepal Himalaya, between 1975 and 2010 using high-resolution DEMs. The rate of elevation change positively correlates with elevation and glacier velocity, and significant surface lowering is observed at supraglacial ponds. A difference in pond density would strongly affect the different geodetic mass balances of the Kanchenjunga and Khumbu glaciers.
This study presents the geodetic mass balance of Kanchenjunga Glacier, a heavily debris-covered...
