A new satellite-derived glacier inventory for western Alaska

• Main Authors: Le Bris, R, Paul, F, Frey, H, Bolch, T
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Glaciological Society 2011
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; New Glacier; Annals of Glaciology; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/53434/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/53434/1/2011_PaulF_a59A046.pdf; http://www.igsoc.org/annals/v52/59/a59A046.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-53434; https://doi.org/10.3189/172756411799096303

Glacier inventories provide the baseline data to perform climate-change impact assessment on a regional scale in a consistent and spatially representative manner. In particular, a more accurate calculation of the current and future contribution to global sea-level rise from heavily glacierized regio...