Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3161-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3161-2020
Data description paper
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03 Dec 2020
Data description paper |  | 03 Dec 2020

More dynamic than expected: an updated survey of surging glaciers in the Pamir

Franz Goerlich, Tobias Bolch, and Frank Paul

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Inventory of surging glaciers in the Pamir. Franz Goerlich, Tobias Bolch, and Frank Paul https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.914150

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This work indicates all glaciers in the Pamir that surged between 1988 and 2018 as revealed by different remote sensing data, mainly Landsat imagery. We found ~ 200 surging glaciers for the entire mountain range and detected the minimum and maximum extents of most of them. The smallest surging glacier is ~ 0.3 km2. This inventory is important for further research on the surging behaviour of glaciers and has to be considered when processing glacier changes (mass, area) of the region.
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