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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Nagai, H., Fujita, K., Nuimura, T., Sakai, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2013
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Stripe; permafrost; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1303-2013; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00022018; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00021973/tc-7-1303-2013.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/7/1303/2013/tc-7-1303-2013.pdf

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...