Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020
Research article
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13 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 13 Feb 2020

Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014

Levan G. Tielidze, Tobias Bolch, Roger D. Wheate, Stanislav S. Kutuzov, Ivan I. Lavrentiev, and Michael Zemp

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We present data of supra-glacial debris cover for 659 glaciers across the Greater Caucasus based on satellite images from the years 1986, 2000 and 2014. We combined semi-automated methods for mapping the clean ice with manual digitization of debris-covered glacier parts and calculated supra-glacial debris-covered area as the residual between these two maps. The distribution of the supra-glacial debris cover differs between northern and southern and between western, central and eastern Caucasus.
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