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Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-603-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-603-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
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18 Feb 2022
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A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach

Gregoire Guillet, Owen King, Mingyang Lv, Sajid Ghuffar, Douglas Benn, Duncan Quincey, and Tobias Bolch

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A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach (Version v1) Gregoire Guillet, Owen King, Mingyang Lv, Sajid Ghuffar, Duncan Quincey, Douglas Benn, and Tobias Bolch https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5524861

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Surging glaciers show cyclical changes in flow behavior – between slow and fast flow – and can have drastic impacts on settlements in their vicinity. One of the clusters of surging glaciers worldwide is High Mountain Asia (HMA). We present an inventory of surging glaciers in HMA, identified from satellite imagery. We show that the number of surging glaciers was underestimated and that they represent 20 % of the area covered by glaciers in HMA, before discussing new physics for glacier surges.
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