Monitoring glacier albedo as a proxy to derive summer and annual surface mass balances from optical remote-sensing data

Davaze, Lucas; Rabatel, Antoine; Arnaud, Yves; Sirguey, Pascal; Six, Delphine; Letreguilly, Anne; Dumont, Marie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-271-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-271-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-271-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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23 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 23 Jan 2018

Monitoring glacier albedo as a proxy to derive summer and annual surface mass balances from optical remote-sensing data

Lucas Davaze, Antoine Rabatel, Yves Arnaud, Pascal Sirguey, Delphine Six, Anne Letreguilly, and Marie Dumont

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SC1: 'Supplementary material layout issue for windows users', Lucas Davaze, 28 Apr 2017
RC1: 'Review of 'Monitoring of glacier albedo from optical remote-sensing data: application to seasonal and annual surface mass balances quantification in the French Alps for the 2000-2015 period'', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 May 2017
RC2: 'review comments from J Dozier, compute a radiation balance instead', Jeff Dozier, 30 Jun 2017
AC1: 'Response to reviews from Anonymous Referee #1 and from Dr Dozier', Lucas Davaze, 27 Jul 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Lucas Davaze on behalf of the Authors (05 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Sep 2017) by Valentina Radic

RR by Jeff Dozier (25 Oct 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Oct 2017) by Valentina Radic

AR by Lucas Davaze on behalf of the Authors (03 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 Nov 2017) by Valentina Radic

AR by Lucas Davaze on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2017)

Short summary

About 150 of the 250 000 inventoried glaciers are currently monitored with surface mass balance (SMB) measurements. To increase this number, we propose a method to retrieve annual and summer SMB from optical satellite imagery, with an application over 30 glaciers in the French Alps. Computing the glacier-wide averaged albedo allows us to reconstruct annual and summer SMB of most of the studied glaciers, highlighting the potential of this method to retrieve SMB of unmonitored glaciers.