Supraglacial debris affects glacier mass balance as a thin layer enhances surface melting,
while a thick layer reduces it. While many glaciers are debris‐covered, global glacier models …

Debris-covered glaciers are common in rapidly eroding alpine landscapes. When thicker
than a few centimeters, surface debris suppresses melt rates. If continuous debris cover is …

Glacier tourism, a multimillion-dollar industry in New Zealand, is potentially under threat by
ongoing glacial retreat. Surface morphology changes associated with retreat and thinning …

Current glacier ablation models have difficulty simulating the high‐melt transition zone
between clean and debris‐covered ice. In this zone, thin debris cover is thought to increase …

The assessment of meltwater sourcing from the clean and debris-covered glaciers is scarce
in High Mountain Asia (HMA). The melting rate varies with the debris cover thickness and …

A suite of cosmogenic radionuclide ages taken from boulders on lateral and latero-terminal
moraines in the Rangitata Valley, eastern South Island, New Zealand demonstrates that …

Debris-covered glaciers are characterised by a mantle of rock material, the supraglacial
debris, spread over part of the ablation zone. The debris material origins from the catchment …

Despite the increase of sparse debris on many glaciers in the world and its undisputed
impact on glacier ablation, both its evolution and its detailed effect have been poorly …

We use a spatially distributed and physically based energy and mass balance model to
derive the Østrem curve, which expresses the supraglacial debris‐related relative melt …

Rocky debris covers around 7.3% of the global glacier area, influencing ice melt rates and
the surface mass balance of glaciers, making the dynamics and hydrology of debris-covered …