[HTML][HTML] Annual and seasonal glacier-wide surface mass balance quantified from changes in glacier surface state: A review on existing methods using optical satellite …

A Rabatel, P Sirguey, V Drolon, P Maisongrande… - Remote Sensing, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Glaciers are one of the terrestrial essential climate variables (ECVs) as they respond very
sensitively to climate change. A key driver of their response is the glacier surface mass …

Landsat satellites observed dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season, Himalayas, 1991–2022

J Wang, Z Tang, G Deng, G Hu, Y You, Y Zhao - Remote Sensing, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Studying the dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season (SLA-EMS) is
beneficial in predicting future trends of glaciers and non-seasonal snow cover and in …

Testing the area–altitude balance ratio (AABR) and accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods of calculating glacier equilibrium-line altitudes

RP Oien, BR Rea, M Spagnolo, ID Barr… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - cambridge.org
In this study, we compare equilibrium-line altitudes (ELAs) calculated using the area–
altitude balance ratio (AABR) and the accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods, with …

[PDF][PDF] Greenland precipitation trends in a long-term instrumental climate context (1890–2012): evaluation of coastal and ice core records

SH Mernild, E Hanna, JR McConnell, M Sigl… - Int. J. Climatol, 2015‏ - core.ac.uk
Recent xxx in Greenland in a long-term instrumental (1890-2012) climate context: Evaluation of
coastal precipitation records Page 1 1 Greenland precipitation trends in a long-term …

Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from modelling constrained with repeated snow line observations

M Barandun, M Huss, R Usubaliev, E Azisov… - The …, 2018‏ - tc.copernicus.org
Glacier surface mass balance observations in the Tien Shan and Pamir are relatively sparse
and often discontinuous. Nevertheless, glaciers are one of the most important components …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of snowline altitude and their responses to climate change in the Tienshan Mountains, Central Asia, During 2001–2019

G Deng, Z Tang, G Hu, J Wang, G Sang, J Li - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Snow cover is an important water resource in arid and semi-arid regions of Central Asia, and
is related to agricultural and livestock production, ecosystems, and socio-economic …

[HTML][HTML] On the automated map** of snow cover on glaciers and calculation of snow line altitudes from multi-temporal landsat data

P Rastner, R Prinz, C Notarnicola, L Nicholson… - Remote Sensing, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Map** snow cover (SC) on glaciers at the end of the ablation period provides a possibility
to rapidly obtain a proxy for their equilibrium line altitude (ELA) which in turn is a metric for …

[HTML][HTML] Automated glacier snow line altitude calculation method using landsat series images in the Google earth engine platform

X Li, N Wang, Y Wu - Remote Sensing, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Glacier snow line altitude (SLA) at the end of the ablation season is an indicator of the
equilibrium line altitude (ELA), which is a key parameter for calculating and assessing …

Snow cover and runoff modelling in a high mountain catchment with scarce data: effects of temperature and precipitation parameters

F Zhang, H Zhang, SC Hagen, M Ye… - Hydrological …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Snowmelt is an important source of runoff in high mountain catchments. Snowmelt modelling
for alpine regions remains challenging with scarce gauges. This study simulates the …

Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades

LJ Larocca, JM Lea, MP Erb, NP McKay… - The …, 2024‏ - tc.copernicus.org
The number of Arctic glaciers with direct, long-term measurements of mass balance is
limited. Here we used satellite-based observations of the glacier snowline altitude (SLA), the …