Southwest-facing slopes control the formation of debris-covered glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya

To understand the formation conditions of debris-covered glaciers, we examined the dimension and shape of debris-covered areas and potential debris-supply (PDS) slopes of 213 glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya. This was undertaken using satellite images with 2.5 m spatial resolution for manual delineat...

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Published in:The Cryosphere
Main Authors: Nagai, H., Fujita, K., Nuimura, T., Sakai, A.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1303-2013
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1303/2013/