Characteristics of mountain glaciers in the northern Japanese Alps

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Arie, Kenshiro, Narama, Chiyuki, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Fukui, Kotaro, Iida, Hajime
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Ela; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1091-2022; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00060466; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00060095/tc-16-1091-2022.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/1091/2022/tc-16-1091-2022.pdf

Since 2012, seven perennial snow patches in the northern Japanese Alps have been determined to be very small glaciers (VSGs: <0.5 km2). However, it had not been determined how such glaciers could be maintained in such a warm climate. In this study, we calculate the annual mass balance, accumulati...