Ice cliff contribution to the tongue-wide ablation of Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal, central Himalaya

<p>Ice cliff backwasting on debris-covered glaciers is recognized as an important mass-loss process that is potentially responsible for the <q>debris-cover anomaly</q>, i.e. the fact that debris-covered and debris-free glacier tongues appear to have similar thinning rates in the...

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Main Authors: F. Brun, P. Wagnon, E. Berthier, J. M. Shea, W. W. Immerzeel, P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink, C. Vincent, C. Reverchon, D. Shrestha, Y. Arnaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-11-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/3439/2018/tc-12-3439-2018.pdf