Modelling the feedbacks between mass balance, ice flow and debris transport to predict the response to climate change of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 430, Issue , 2015, Pages 427-438

  Rowan, Ann V ^a   Egholm, David L ^b   Quincey, Duncan J ^c   Glasser, Neil F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Everest region; Glacier dynamics; Glacier modelling; Supraglacial debris

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEBRIS; FORECASTING; ICE; NUMERICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; DEBRIS COVERED GLACIERS; EVEREST REGION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLACIER CHANGE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE FLOW; LITTLE ICE AGE;

HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU GLACIER; NEPAL; SAGARMATHA [(ADS) NEPAL];

EID: 84941901044     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.004     Document Type: Article

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