Stagnation and mass loss on a Himalayan debris-covered glacier: processes, patterns and rates

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Thompson, SS, Benn, DI, Mertes, J, Luckman, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Int Glaciol Soc 2016
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; Glaciology; Dammed Lake; Rapid Lake; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.37; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/140807

The ablation areas of debris-covered glaciers typically consist of a complex mosaic of surface features with contrasting processes and rates of mass loss. This greatly complicates glacier response to climate change, and increases the uncertainty of predictive models. In this paper we present a serie...