The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

M Beniston, D Farinotti, M Stoffel, LM Andreassen… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
The mountain cryosphere of mainland Europe is recognized to have important impacts on a
range of environmental processes. In this paper, we provide an overview on the current …

LiDAR remote sensing of the cryosphere: Present applications and future prospects

A Bhardwaj, L Sam, A Bhardwaj… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The cryosphere consists of frozen water and includes lakes/rivers/sea ice, glaciers, ice
caps/sheets, snow cover, and permafrost. Because highly reflective snow and ice are the …

Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century

C Sommer, P Malz, TC Seehaus, S Lippl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain glaciers are known to be strongly affected by global climate change. Here we
compute temporally consistent changes in glacier area, surface elevation and ice mass over …

Surface elevation and mass changes of all Swiss glaciers 1980–2010

M Fischer, M Huss, M Hoelzle - The Cryosphere, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
Since the mid-1980s, glaciers in the European Alps have shown widespread and
accelerating mass losses. This article presents glacier-specific changes in surface elevation …

Glacier topography and elevation changes derived from Pléiades sub-meter stereo images

E Berthier, C Vincent, E Magnússon… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
In response to climate change, most glaciers are losing mass and hence contribute to sea-
level rise. Repeated and accurate map** of their surface topography is required to …

The new Swiss Glacier Inventory SGI2010: relevance of using high-resolution source data in areas dominated by very small glaciers

M Fischer, M Huss, C Barboux… - Arctic, Antarctic, and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In view of the rapid and accelerating glacier retreat observed in the European Alps during
the last decades, the repeated creation of glacier inventories is important to understand the …

Extrapolating glacier mass balance to the mountain-range scale: the European Alps 1900–2100

M Huss - The Cryosphere, 2012 - tc.copernicus.org
This study addresses the extrapolation of in-situ glacier mass balance measurements to the
mountain-range scale and aims at deriving time series of area-averaged mass balance and …

Multitemporal glacier inventory of the French Alps from the late 1960s to the late 2000s

M Gardent, A Rabatel, JP Dedieu, P Deline - Global and Planetary Change, 2014 - Elsevier
The most recent and complete French glacier inventory was previously the Vivian database,
dating from the end of the 1960s but incorporated in the World Glacier Inventory database at …

Tracing glacier changes in Austria from the Little Ice Age to the present using a lidar-based high-resolution glacier inventory in Austria

A Fischer, B Seiser, M Stocker Waldhuber… - The …, 2015 - tc.copernicus.org
Glacier inventories provide the basis for further studies on mass balance and volume
change, relevant for local hydrological issues as well as for global calculation of sea level …

[KNYGA][B] P Pellikka, WG Rees - 2009 - books.google.com

Bringing together experts in the field of remote sensing of glaciers, this book covers topics
ranging from early terrestrial photogrammetry to the latest airborne laser and satellite radar …