What Can Thermal Imagery Tell Us About Glacier Melt Below Rock Debris?

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Author: Sam Herreid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: thermal infrared; glacier melt modeling; ASTER thermal infrared; debris covered glaciers; cryosphere; mountain glaciers; Science; Q; Østrem; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.681059; https://doaj.org/article/17bb7591fb7442768ec8dbf42eb6936e

Rock debris on the surface of a glacier can dramatically reduce the local melt rate, where the primary factor governing melt reduction is debris layer thickness. Relating surface temperature to debris thickness is a recurring approach in the literature, yet demonstrations of reproducibility have bee...