Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

KE Miles, B Hubbard, TDL Irvine-Fynn, ES Miles… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The hydrological characteristics of debris-covered glaciers are known to be fundamentally
different from those of clean-ice glaciers, even within the same climatological, geological …

Understanding complex debris-covered glaciers: Concepts, issues, and research directions

D Huo, MP Bishop, ABG Bush - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the climate-glacier dynamics of debris-covered glaciers is notoriously difficult
given a multitude of controlling factors and feedback mechanisms involving climate forcing …

Influence of debris cover and altitude on glacier surface melting: a case study on Dokriani Glacier, central Himalaya, India

B Pratap, DP Dobhal, M Mehta, R Bhambri - Annals of Glaciology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Most of the central Himalayan glaciers have surface debris layers of variable thickness,
which greatly affect the ablation rate. An attempt has been made to relate debris-cover …

Common climatic signal from glaciers in the European Alps over the last 50 years

C Vincent, A Fischer, C Mayer, A Bauder… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional glacier‐wide mass balances are commonly used to study the effect of climate
forcing on glacier melt. Unfortunately, the glacier‐wide mass balances are also influenced …

A grid-based model of backwasting of supraglacial ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers

P Buri, F Pellicciotti, JF Steiner, ES Miles… - Annals of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Ice cliffs might be partly responsible for the high mass losses of debris-covered glaciers in
the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya region. The few existing models of cliff backwasting …

Processes at the margins of supraglacial debris cover: Quantifying dirty ice ablation and debris redistribution

CL Fyffe, AS Woodget, MP Kirkbride… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Seasonal changes in surface albedo of Himalayan glaciers from MODIS data and links with the annual mass balance

F Brun, M Dumont, P Wagnon, E Berthier… - The …, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
Few glaciological field data are available on glaciers in the Hindu Kush–Karakoram–
Himalayan (HKH) region, and remote sensing data are thus critical for glacier studies in this …

The importance of turbulent fluxes in the surface energy balance of a debris-covered glacier in the Himalayas

JF Steiner, M Litt, EE Stigter, J Shea… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Surface energy balance models are common tools to estimate melt rates of debris-covered
glaciers. In the Himalayas, radiative fluxes are occasionally measured, but very limited …

Debris-covered glacier energy balance model for Imja–Lhotse Shar Glacier in the Everest region of Nepal

DR Rounce, DJ Quincey, DC McKinney - The Cryosphere, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
Debris thickness plays an important role in regulating ablation rates on debris-covered
glaciers as well as controlling the likely size and location of supraglacial lakes. Despite its …

Assessing glacier melt contribution to streamflow at Universidad Glacier, central Andes of Chile

C Bravo, T Loriaux, A Rivera… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Glacier melt is an important source of water for high Andean rivers in central Chile,
especially in dry years, when it can be an important contributor to flows during late summer …