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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. Ramage, D. T. Rodbell, E. M. McFadden
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: geo; envir; Ela; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-419-2011; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/5/419/2011/tc-5-419-2011.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/0f30cb55f980467685787426feaeb8a5

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...