Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1807-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1807-2018
10 Oct 2018
 | 10 Oct 2018

A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

Nico Mölg, Tobias Bolch, Philipp Rastner, Tazio Strozzi, and Frank Paul

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Knowledge about the size and location of glaciers is essential to understand impacts of climatic changes on the natural environment. Therefore, we have produced an inventory of all glaciers in some of the largest glacierized mountain regions worldwide. Many large glaciers are covered by a rock (debris) layer, which also changes their reaction to climatic changes. Thus, we have also mapped this debris layer for all glaciers. We have mapped almost 28000 glaciers covering ~35000 km2.
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