An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863&thinsp;m&thinsp;a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)

Mandal, Arindan; Angchuk, Thupstan; Azam, Mohd Farooq; Ramanathan, Alagappan; Wagnon, Patrick; Soheb, Mohd; Singh, Chetan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3775-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3775-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3775-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 9

Research article

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22 Sep 2022

Research article |

| 22 Sep 2022

An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)

Arindan Mandal, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Farooq Azam, Alagappan Ramanathan, Patrick Wagnon, Mohd Soheb, and Chetan Singh

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Short summary

Snow sublimation is an important component of glacier surface mass balance; however, it is seldom studied in detail in the Himalayan region owing to data scarcity. We present an 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation characteristics at the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine site at 4863 m a.s.l. The estimated winter sublimation is 16 %–42 % of the winter snowfall at the study site, which signifies how sublimation is important in the Himalayan region.