Landsat TM and ETM+ derived snowline altitudes in the Cordillera Huayhuash and Cordillera Raura, Peru, 1986–2005

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: McFadden, E. M., Ramage, J., Rodbell, D. T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Ela; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-419-2011; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00027398; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00027353/tc-5-419-2011.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/5/419/2011/tc-5-419-2011.pdf

The Cordilleras Huayhuash and Raura are remote glacierized ranges in the Andes Mountains of Peru. A robust assessment of modern glacier change is important for understanding how regional change affects Andean communities, and for placing paleo-glaciers in a context relative to modern glaciation and...