Surface lowering of the debris-covered area of Kanchenjunga Glacier in the eastern Nepal Himalaya since 1975, as revealed by Hexagon KH-9 and ALOS satellite observations

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: D. Lamsal, K. Fujita, A. Sakai
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: geo; envir; Lower Pond; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2815-2017; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/2815/2017/tc-11-2815-2017.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/b94beca7870341d8b9cfe663488318cf

This study presents the geodetic mass balance of Kanchenjunga Glacier, one of the largest debris-covered glaciers in the easternmost Nepal Himalaya, which possesses a negative mass balance of −0.18 ± 0.17 m w.e. a−1 for the 1975–2010 study period, estimated using digital elevation models (DEMs) gene...