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Glacier retreat and lake outburst floods in the central Himalayan region from 2000 to 2022
Recent research on the Himalayan cryosphere has increasingly been focused on climate uncertainty and regional variations, considering features such as glacier recession, lake expansion, outburst floods, and re...
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Glacial changes in the Gangdisê Mountains from 1970 to 2016
Based on the revised First Chinese Glacier Inventory (FCGI), the Second Chinese Glacier Inventory (SCGI) and Landsat OLI images for 2015–2016, we analyzed the spatial-temporal variation characteristics of glac...
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Glacier changes in the Qilian Mountains in the past half-century: Based on the revised First and Second Chinese Glacier Inventory
Glaciers are the most important fresh-water resources in arid and semi-arid regions of western China. According to the Second Chinese Glacier Inventory (SCGI), primarily compiled from Landsat TM/ETM+ images, t...
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Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability
Surges and glacier avalanches are expressions of glacier instability, and among the most dramatic phenomena in the mountain cryosphere. Until now, the catastrophic collapse of a glacier, combining the large vo...
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Estimation and analysis of the surface velocity field of mountain glaciers in Muztag Ata using satellite SAR data
Muztag Ata is a mountain known as the “Father of glaciers” in the west of China. However, its glacier flow pattern has never been studied. In this paper, the velocity of mountain glaciers on Muztag Ata is mapp...
