Spatiotemporal supraglacial pond and ice cliff changes in the Bhutan–Tibet border region from 2016 to 2018
Supraglacial ponds and ice cliffs can dramatically enhance ablation rates on debris-covered glaciers. Supraglacial ponds can also coalesce, forming moraine-dammed lakes at risk of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). Given Bhutanese glaciers have some of the highest ice loss rates in the Himalaya and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022-02-01
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Series: | Journal of Glaciology |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143021000769/type/journal_article |