Southwest-facing slopes control the formation of debris-covered glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya

To understand the formation conditions of debris-covered glaciers, we examined the dimension and shape of debris-covered areas and potential debris-supply (PDS) slopes of 213 glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya. This was undertaken using satellite images with 2.5 m spatial resolution for manual delineat...

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Main Authors: H. Nagai, K. Fujita, T. Nuimura, A. Sakai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-08-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/1303/2013/tc-7-1303-2013.pdf

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