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dc.contributor.authorKing, Owen
dc.contributor.authorDehecq, Amaury
dc.contributor.authorQuincey, Duncan
dc.contributor.authorCarrivick, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-26T15:30:08Z
dc.date.available2019-11-26T15:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.identifier263617017
dc.identifier41b35077-31e4-4ccd-b48f-1a210831f22b
dc.identifier85047603512
dc.identifier.citationKing , O , Dehecq , A , Quincey , D & Carrivick , J 2018 , ' Contrasting geometric and dynamic evolution of lake and land-terminating glaciers in the central Himalaya ' , Global and Planetary Change , vol. 167 , pp. 46-60 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.05.006en
dc.identifier.issn0921-8181
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19007
dc.descriptionOK is a recipient of a NERC SPHERES DTP PhD Studentship (grant award NE/L002574/1). AD was supported by funding from the NASA Cryosphere Program. The research was conducted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency.en
dc.description.abstractThe impact of glacial lake development on the evolution of glaciers in the Himalaya is poorly quantified, despite the increasing prevalence of supraglacial and proglacial water bodies throughout the region. In this study we examine changes in the geometry, velocity and surface elevation of nine lake-terminating and nine land-terminating glaciers in the Everest region of the central Himalaya over the time period 2000 to 2015. The land-terminating glaciers we examined all decelerated (mean velocity change of −0.16 to −5.60 m a −1 for different glaciers), thinned most in their middle reaches, and developed a more gently sloping surface (−0.02 to −0.37° change) down-glacier over the period 2000–2015. The lake-terminating glaciers we examined all retreated (0.46 to 1.42 km), became steeper (0.04 to 8.68° change), and showed maximum thinning towards their termini, but differed in terms of their dynamics, with one group of glaciers accelerating (mean speed-up of 0.18 to 8.04 m a −1 ) and the other decelerating (mean slow-down of −0.36 m a −1 to −8.68 m a −1 ). We suggest that these two scenarios of glacier evolution each represent a different phase of glacial lake expansion; one that is accompanied by increasingly dynamic glacier behaviour and retreat, and a phase where glacial lakes have little impact on glacier behaviour that may precede or follow the phase of active retreat. Our observations are important because they quantify the interaction of glacial lake expansion with glacier ice mass loss, and show that increased glacier recession should be expected where a glacial lake has begun to develop.
dc.format.extent15
dc.format.extent5490671
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal and Planetary Changeen
dc.subjectDigital elevation modelen
dc.subjectGlacial lake outburst floodsen
dc.subjectGlacial lakesen
dc.subjectGlacier velocityen
dc.subjectHimalayaen
dc.subjectG Geography (General)en
dc.subjectOceanographyen
dc.subjectGlobal and Planetary Changeen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccG1en
dc.titleContrasting geometric and dynamic evolution of lake and land-terminating glaciers in the central Himalayaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.05.006
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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