Brief communication : Glaciers in the Hunza catchment (Karakoram) have been nearly in balance since the 1970s
Date
15/02/2017Metadata
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Previous geodetic estimates of mass changes in the Karakoram revealed balanced budgets or a possible slight mass gain since ∼2000. Indications of longer-term stability exist but only very few mass budget analyses are available before 2000. Here, based on 1973 Hexagon KH-9, ∼2009 ASTER and the SRTM DTM, we show that glaciers in the Hunza River basin (central Karakoram) were on average in balance or showed slight insignificant mass loss within the period ∼1973-2009. Heterogeneous behaviour and frequent surge activities were also characteristic of the period before 2000. Surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers showed on average no significantly different mass change values. However, some individual glacier mass change rates differed significantly for the periods before and after ∼2000.
Citation
Bolch , T , Pieczonka , T , Mukherjee , K & Shea , J 2017 , ' Brief communication : Glaciers in the Hunza catchment (Karakoram) have been nearly in balance since the 1970s ' , The Cryosphere , vol. 11 , no. 1 , pp. 531-539 . https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-531-2017
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The Cryosphere
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1994-0416Type
Journal article
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© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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