Meteorological conditions, seasonal and annual mass balances of Chhota Shigri Glacier, western Himalaya, India

• Main Authors: Azam, M. F., Ramanathan, A., Wagnon, Patrick, Vincent, C., Linda, A., Berthier, E., Sharma, P., Mandal, A., Angchuk, T., Singh, V. B., Pottakkal, J. G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: accumulation; glacier mass balance; glacier meteorology; mountain; glaciers; Ela; Pleiades; Annals of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010068223

We present the updated glaciological mass balance (MB) of Chhota Shigri Glacier, the longest continuous annual MB record in the Hindu-Kush Karakoram Himalaya (HKH) region. Additionally, 4 years of seasonal MBs are presented and analyzed using the data acquired at an automatic weather station (AWS-M)...