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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-271-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-271-2018
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE (UMR5001), 38000 Grenoble, France
Antoine Rabatel
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE (UMR5001), 38000 Grenoble, France
Yves Arnaud
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE (UMR5001), 38000 Grenoble, France
Pascal Sirguey
National School of Surveying, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Delphine Six
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE (UMR5001), 38000 Grenoble, France
Anne Letreguilly
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE (UMR5001), 38000 Grenoble, France
Marie Dumont
Météo France, CNRS, CNRM-CEN (UMR3589), 38000 Grenoble, France
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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.
About 150 of the 250 000 inventoried glaciers are currently monitored with surface mass balance...
