Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022 by A. Voordendag, R. Prinz, L. Schuster, G. Kaser

“…<p>In the hydrological year 2021/2022, Alpine glaciers showed unprecedented mass loss. On Hintereisferner (Ötztal Alps, Austria), the glacier-wide mass balance was <span class="inline-formula">−</span>3319 kg m<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span>. …”
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Sharing Scientific Knowledge on Glaciers to the General Public: The Role of Glacier Interpretation Centres in Mountain Tourism Diversification Strategies by Kalpana Nesur, Emmanuel Salim, Camille Girault, Ludovic Ravanel

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Sediment redistribution beneath the terminus of an advancing glacier, Taku Glacier (T'aakú Kwáan Sít'i), Alaska by Jenna M. Zechmann, Martin Truffer, Roman J. Motyka, Jason M. Amundson, Chris F. Larsen

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MEASURING SURFACE DEFORMATION IN GLACIER RETREATED AREAS BASED ON PS-INSAR – GELADANDONG GLACIER AS A CASE STUDY by B. Mohamadi, T. Balz

“…Glaciers are retreating in many parts of the world as a result of global warming. …”
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Modelling 60 years of glacier mass balance and runoff for Chhota Shigri Glacier, Western Himalaya, Northern India by MARKUS ENGELHARDT, AL. RAMANATHAN, TRUDE EIDHAMMER, PANKAJ KUMAR, OSKAR LANDGREN, ARINDAN MANDAL, ROY RASMUSSEN

Subjects: “…glacier discharge…”
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EXPLOITING SENTINEL-1 AMPLITUDE DATA FOR GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY FIELD MEASUREMENTS: FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION ON BALTORO GLACIER by A. Nascetti, F. Nocchi, A. Camplani, C. Di Rico, M. Crespi

“…The leading idea of this work is to continuously retrieve glaciers surface velocity through SAR imagery, in particular using the amplitude data from the new ESA satellite sensor Sentinel-1 imagery. …”
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Reanalysis of the US Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: long-term insight into climate forcing of glacier mass balance by Shad O'Neel, Christopher McNeil, Louis C. Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Emily H. Baker, Erich Peitzsch, Daniel McGrath, Andrew G. Fountain, Daniel Fagre

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A Revised Glacier Inventory of Bhaga Basin Himachal Pradesh, India : Current Status and Recent Glacier Variations by F. Birajdar, G. Venkataraman, I. Bahuguna, H. Samant

“…Himalayan glaciers show large uncertainty regarding their present and future state due to their sensitive reaction towards change in climatic condition. …”
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Influence of glacier runoff and near-terminus subglacial hydrology on frontal ablation at a large Greenlandic tidewater glacier by Charlie Bunce, Peter Nienow, Andrew Sole, Tom Cowton, Benjamin Davison

“…Frontal ablation from tidewater glaciers is a major component of the total mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet. …”
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Climatic drivers of seasonal glacier mass balances: an analysis of 6 decades at Glacier de Sarennes (French Alps) by E. Thibert, N. Eckert, C. Vincent

“…Refined temporal signals extracted from a winter and summer mass balance series recorded at Glacier de Sarennes (French Alps) using variance decomposition are related to local meteorological data and large-scale North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) anomalies in terms of interannual variability, trends of the low-frequency signals, and breaks in the time series. …”
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3D GLACIER MAPPING BY MEANS OF SATELLITE STEREO IMAGES: THE BELVEDERE GLACIER CASE STUDY IN THE ITALIAN ALPS by F. Giulio Tonolo, A. Cina, A. Manzino, M. Fronteddu

“…The authors group is within the Glacier Lab of Politecnico di Torino (part of the CC-LAB, a laboratory for climate change monitoring), which is working on glacier monitoring since 2016, mainly exploiting Geomatics techniques to measure the extent and to model the surface of glaciers over the years. …”
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Positive mass budgets of high-altitude and debris-covered fragmented tributary glaciers in Gangotri Glacier System, Himalaya by Md. Arif Hussain, Mohd. Farooq Azam, Smriti Srivastava, Parul Vinze

Subjects: “…glacier mass balance…”
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Glacier–plume or glacier–fjord circulation models? A 2-D comparison for Hansbreen–Hansbukta system, Svalbard by Eva De Andrés, Jaime Otero, Francisco J. Navarro, Waldemar Walczowski

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Area and volume loss of the glaciers in the Ortles-Cevedale group (Eastern Italian Alps): controls and imbalance of the remaining glaciers by L. Carturan, R. Filippi, R. Seppi, P. Gabrielli, C. Notarnicola, L. Bertoldi, F. Paul, P. Rastner, F. Cazorzi, R. Dinale, G. Dalla Fontana

“…A widespread loss of glacier area and volume has been observed in the European Alps since the 1980s. …”
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Micrometeorological conditions and surface mass and energy fluxes on Lewis Glacier, Mt Kenya, in relation to other tropical glaciers by L. I. Nicholson, R. Prinz, T. Mölg, G. Kaser

“…The Lewis Glacier on Mt Kenya is one of the best-studied tropical glaciers, but full understanding of the interaction of the glacier mass balance and its climatic drivers has been hampered by a lack of long-term meteorological data. …”
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A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976–2009 by T. Bolch, T. Yao, S. Kang, M. F. Buchroithner, D. Scherer, F. Maussion, E. Huintjes, C. Schneider

“…Manual adjustment was especially necessary for delineating the debris-covered glaciers and the glaciers on the panchromatic Hexagon data. …”
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Glacier Image Velocimetry: an open-source toolbox for easy and rapid calculation of high-resolution glacier velocity fields by M. Van Wyk de Vries, M. Van Wyk de Vries, A. D. Wickert, A. D. Wickert

“…<p>We present Glacier Image Velocimetry (GIV), an open-source and easy-to-use software toolkit for rapidly calculating high-spatial-resolution glacier velocity fields. …”
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Terrestrial Signature of a Recently-Tidewater Glacier and Adjacent Periglaciation, Windy Glacier (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic) by Kacper Kreczmer, Maciej Dąbski, Anna Zmarz

“…Contemporary retreat of glaciers is well visible in the West Antarctic region. …”
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Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada by C. Kinnard, C. Kinnard, O. Larouche, O. Larouche, M. N. Demuth, B. Menounos

“…<p>Glacier mass balance models are needed at sites with scarce long-term observations to reconstruct past glacier mass balance and assess its sensitivity to future climate change. …”
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Supervised Methods for Modeling Spatiotemporal Glacier Variations by Quantification of the Area and Terminus of Mountain Glaciers Using Remote Sensing by Edmund Robbins, Thu Thu Hlaing, Jonathan Webb, Nezamoddin N. Kachouie

Subjects: “…mountain glaciers…”
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