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dc.contributor.authorKing, Owen
dc.contributor.authorBhattacharya, Atanu
dc.contributor.authorBolch, Tobias
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-26T15:30:09Z
dc.date.available2021-07-26T15:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.identifier.citationKing , O , Bhattacharya , A & Bolch , T 2021 , ' The presence and influence of glacier surging around the Geladandong ice caps, North East Tibetan Plateau ' , Advances in Climate Change Research , vol. 12 , no. 3 , pp. 299-312 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2021.05.001en
dc.identifier.issn1674-9278
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 274345328
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1d12426a-40b8-4d4b-9fc3-1792d6741d26
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:C4C56EB6A0505C6370CB51BB5E8E06CC
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8201-5059/work/94669929
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85108212447
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000675859500002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23638
dc.descriptionThis study was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA20100300).en
dc.description.abstractMany glaciers and ice caps on the Tibetan Plateau have retreated and lost mass in recent years in response to temperature increases, providing clear evidence of the impact of climate change on the region. There is increasing evidence that many of the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have also shown periodically dynamic behaviour in the form of glacier surging and some even catastrophic collapse events. In this study, we examine the prevalence of glacier surging at the Geladandong ice caps, North East Tibetan Plateau, to better understand the role of surge events in the evolution of glacier mass loss budgets. Using glacier surface elevation change data over the period 1969–2018 and glacier surface velocity data from the ITS_LIVE dataset, we find that 19 outlet glaciers of the ice caps are of surge-type. Our multi-temporal measurements of glacier mass balance show that surge-type glacier mass budgets vary depending on the portion of the surge-cycle captured by geodetic data. At the regional level, pre- and post-surge glacier mass loss variability does not bias regional mass budget estimates, but enhanced, or suppressed, mass loss estimates are likely when small groups of glaciers are examined. Our results emphasise the importance of accurate surge-type glacier inventories and the need to maximise geodetic data coverage over glacierised regions known to contain surge-type glaciers.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAdvances in Climate Change Researchen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.subjectGlacier surgeen
dc.subjectRemote sensingen
dc.subjectCorona KH-4en
dc.subjectGlacier mass balanceen
dc.subjectASTERen
dc.subjectTIBETAN PLATEAUen
dc.subjectGlacier velocityen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleThe presence and influence of glacier surging around the Geladandong ice caps, North East Tibetan Plateauen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2021.05.001
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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