Spatiotemporal supraglacial pond and ice cliff changes in the Bhutan–Tibet border region from 2016 to 2018

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Caroline Jane Taylor, Joanne Rachel Carr, David Robert Rounce
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Subjects: Bhutan; debris-covered glaciers; ice cliffs; remote sensing; supraglacial ponds; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Indian; Glacial Lake; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.76; https://doaj.org/article/e34c395832294ffbb5a27c92edb3d0ed

Supraglacial ponds and ice cliffs can dramatically enhance ablation rates on debris-covered glaciers. Supraglacial ponds can also coalesce, forming moraine-dammed lakes at risk of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). Given Bhutanese glaciers have some of the highest ice loss rates in the Himalaya and...