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Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2643-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2643-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Research article
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01 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 01 Jul 2022

Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier

Yota Sato, Koji Fujita, Hiroshi Inoue, Akiko Sakai, and Karma

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We investigate fluctuations in Bhutanese lake-terminating glaciers focusing on the dynamics change before and after proglacial lake formation at Thorthormi Glacier (TG) based on photogrammetry, satellite, and GPS surveys. The thinning rate of TG became double compared to before proglacial lake formation, and the flow velocity has also sped up considerably. Those changes would be due to the reduction in longitudinal ice compression by the detachment of the glacier terminus from the end moraine.
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