High-resolution inventory to capture glacier disintegration in the Austrian Silvretta

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. Fischer, G. Schwaizer, B. Seiser, K. Helfricht, M. Stocker-Waldhuber
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; The Sentinel; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4637-2021; https://doaj.org/article/1458bc4af52b4057aa5cab7cc3170736

A new high-resolution glacier inventory captures the rapid decay of the glaciers in the Austrian Silvretta for the years 2017 and 2018. Identifying the glacier outlines offers a wide range of possible interpretations of glaciers that have evolved into small and now totally debris-covered cryogenic s...