期刊
JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY
卷 58, 期 210, 页码 648-656出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3189/2012JoG11J061
关键词
-
资金
- MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) [19253001]
- G-4, the 21st Century COE Program of MEXT
- Kurita Water and Environment Foundation [21010]
Due to remoteness and high altitude, only a few ground-based glacier change studies are available in high-mountain areas in the Himalaya. However, digital elevation models based on remotely sensed data (RS-DEMs) provide feasible opportunities to evaluate how fast Himalayan glaciers are changing. Here we compute elevation changes in glacier surface (total area 183.3 km(2)) in the Khumbu region, Nepal Himalaya, for the period 1992-2008 using multitemporal RS-DEMs and a map-derived DEM calibrated with differential GPS survey data in 2007. Elevation change is calculated by generating a weighted least-squares linear regression model. Our method enables us to provide the distribution of uncertainty of the elevation change. Debris-covered areas show large lowering rates. The spatial distribution of elevation change shows that the different wastage features of the debris-covered glaciers depend on their scale, slope and the existence of glacial lakes. The elevation changes of glaciers in the eastern Khumbu region are in line with previous studies. The regional average mass balance of -0.40 +/- 0.25 m w.e. a(-1) for the period 1992-2008 is consistent with a global value of about -0.55 m w.e. a(-1) for the period 1996-2005.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据