Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia

  • Michael McCarthy,
  • Evan Miles,
  • Marin Kneib,
  • Pascal Buri,
  • Stefan Fugger,
  • Francesca Pellicciotti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Supraglacial debris in High-Mountain Asia is extensively thin and its supply rate from local topography increases with the temperature and slope of debris-supply slopes, according to analyses of remote sensing data from over 4600 glaciers.