Glacier variations and rising temperature in the Mt. Kenya since the Last Glacial Maximum

• Published in: Journal of Mountain Science
• Main Authors: Chen, AA, Wang, NL, Guo, ZM, Wu, YW, Wu, HB
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Remote sensing; Last Glacial Maximum; Little Ice Age; Glacier area; Equilibrium-line altitudes; Mt. Kenya; Ela; Lewis Glacier
• Online Access: http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/35510; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-017-4600-z

High-resolution imagery can be used to reconstruct former glacier boundaries through the identification of glacial erosional and sedimentary geomorphology. We employed moraine mapping and the accumulation-area ratio method (AAR), in conjunction with Landsat, Google Earth, and SRTM imagery, to recons...