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Research article
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22 Sep 2022
Research article |
| 22 Sep 2022
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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)
School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
Thupstan Angchuk
DST's Centre of Excellence, Department of Geology, Sikkim University, Gangtok 737102, India
Mohd Farooq Azam
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol 453552, India
Alagappan Ramanathan
School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Patrick Wagnon
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Mohd Soheb
School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Chetan Singh
School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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Latest update: 18 Feb 2025
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.
Snow sublimation is an important component of glacier surface mass balance; however, it is seldom...
