Assessment of Changes in Mass Balance of the Tuyuksu Group of Glaciers, Northern Tien Shan, Between 1958 and 2016 Using Ground-Based Observations and Pléiades Satellite Imagery

Continuous measurements of glaciological mass balance have been conducted at the Central Tuyuksu glacier, Tuyuksu group of glaciers, Ile Alatau, northern Tien Shan since 1957, showing that cumulative mass balance was negative since the 1970s. Geodetic mass balance was calculated for the 1958–1998 an...

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Main Authors: Vassiliy Kapitsa, Maria Shahgedanova, Igor Severskiy, Nikolay Kasatkin, Kevin White, Zamira Usmanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00259/full