Himalayan glaciers are a focus of public and scientific debate. Prevailing uncertainties are of
major concern because some projections of their future have serious implications for water …

Anthropogenic climate change is rapidly altering high mountain environments, including
changing the frequency, dynamic behavior, location, and magnitude of alpine mass …

The effect of climate change on water resources and sea-level rise is largely determined by
the size of the ice reservoirs around the world and the ice thickness distribution, which …

Abstract Knowledge of the ice thickness distribution of the world's glaciers is a fundamental
prerequisite for a range of studies. Projections of future glacier change, estimates of the …

The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) is a globally complete collection of digital outlines of
glaciers, excluding the ice sheets, developed to meet the needs of the Fifth Assessment of …

A new physically based approach for calculating glacier ice thickness distribution and
volume is presented and applied to all glaciers and ice caps worldwide. Combining glacier …

Knowledge of the ice thickness distribution of glaciers and ice caps is an important
prerequisite for many glaciological and hydrological investigations. A wealth of approaches …

Despite knowledge of the presence of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) in reorganizing large-scale
atmospheric circulation, it remains unclear how surface albedo darkening over TP will …

The combination of glacier outlines with digital elevation models (DEMs) opens new
dimensions for research on climate change impacts over entire mountain chains. Of …

Despite their importance for sea-level rise, seasonal water availability, and as a source of
geohazards, mountain glaciers are one of the few remaining subsystems of the global …