Disaggregating geodetic glacier mass balance to annual scale using remote-sensing proxies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.89" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.89</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.89" target="_blank" >10.1017/jog.2022.89</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Disaggregating geodetic glacier mass balance to annual scale using remote-sensing proxies

Original language description

Decadal-scale, high-resolution geodetic measurements of glacier thinning have transformed our understanding of glacier response to climate change. Annual glacier mass balance can be estimated using remote-sensing proxies like snow-line altitude. These methods require field data for calibration, which are not available for most glaciers. Here we propose a method that combines multiple remotely-sensed proxies to obtain robust estimates of the annual glacier-wide balance using only remotely-sensed decadal-scale geodetic mass balance for calibration. The method is tested on Chhota Shigri, Argentiere and Saint-Sorlin glaciers in the Himalaya and the Alps between 2001 and 2020, using four remotely-sensed proxies - the snow-line altitude, the minimum summer albedo over the glacier and two statistics of normalised difference snow index over the off-glacier area around the ablation zone. The reconstructed mass balance compares favourably with the corresponding glaciological field data (correlation coefficient 0.81 - 0.90, p < 0.001; root mean squared error 0.38 - 0.43 m w.e. a(-1)). The method presented may be useful to study interannual variability in mass balance on glaciers where no field data are available.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

ISSN

0022-1430

e-ISSN

1727-5652

Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

276

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

683-692

UT code for WoS article

000889915400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85167686039