Ice Aprons in the Mont Blanc Massif (Western European Alps): Topographic Characteristics and Relations with Glaciers and Other Types of Perennial Surface Ice Features

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Kaushik, Suvrat, Ravanel, Ludovic, Magnin, Florence, Trouvé, Emmanuel, Yan, Yajing
• Other Authors: Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-19-CE01-0018,WISPER,Processus thermo-mécaniques liés à l'eau et à la glace dans les fractures des parois alpines à permafrost(2019)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Mont Blanc; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04024633; https://hal.science/hal-04024633/document; https://hal.science/hal-04024633/file/2022_Kaushik_remotesensing-14-05557-v3.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215557

International audience Ice aprons are poorly studied and not well-defined thin ice bodies adhering to high altitude steep rock faces, but are present in most Alpine-type high mountain environments worldwide. This study aims to precisely define ice aprons based on a detailed analysis of their topogra...