[GLIMS] Fwd: NEPAL GLACIER AA PROFILE

[Graham Cogley]

Dear Wendell – The information you are looking for is available in graphical form in several of Koji Fujita’s papers, for example Fujita et al. (1997) JGlaciol 43(145) 583-588 [Rikka Samba] and Fujita and Nuimura (2011) PNAS 108(34) 14011-14014 [both glaciers]. The numbers are tabulated in WGMS (2005) Fluctuations of Glaciers 1995-2000 (Vol. VIII), on page 227 (downloadable from http://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/wgms/fog.html ).

 

Graham.

 

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Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA K9J 7B8.

 

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From: glims-bounces at nsidc.org [mailto:glims-bounces at nsidc.org] On Behalf Of Adina Racoviteanu
Sent: September-11-11 3:31 PM
To: gcogley1 at cogeco.ca; wendell Tangborn
Cc: David Korn; birbal; GLIMS Mailing List; Siri Jodha Khalsa
Subject: Re: [GLIMS] Fwd: NEPAL GLACIER AA PROFILE

 

dear Wendell,

 

doing an AA profile for these two glaciers is pretty straight forward, using SRTM. The question, however, is: which area do you want to use? present time, new outlines from satellite imagery, or old outlines? let me know.

 

I am guessing you are using these glaciers as validation for the PTAA method, since they have field measuremnts?

let me also suggest Chhita Chigri in India, which has 8+ years of mass balance measurements- I can help with that one.

Both AX010 and Rikha Samba are small, clean glaciers- I suggest we also try to test on debris covered glaciers.

 

-Adina

 

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:49 PM, wendell Tangborn <hymet01 at gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know how we could get the area-altitude distributions for these two glaciers in Nepal?

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From: birbal <birbal at hymet.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Subject: NEPAL GLACIER AA PROFILE
To: wendell Tangborn <hymet01 at gmail.com>
Cc: Birbal Rana <birbalrana at hotmail.com>



Wendell,

 

NP - RIKHA SAMBA

Updated Aug 22


Field Name

Field Value


PU_NAME

NP - RIKHA SAMBA


LOCAL_PSFG

12


WGMS_ID

1516


GEN_LOCATI

HIMALAYAS


SPEC_LOCAT

DHAULAGIRI


LATITUDE

28.83


LONGITUDE

83.5


MB_1stSY

1999


MB_lastSY

1999


MB_NoObs

1

 

 

NP - AX010

Updated Aug 22


Field Name

Field Value


PU_NAME

NP - AX010


LOCAL_PSFG

5


WGMS_ID

906


GEN_LOCATI

HIMALAYAS


SPEC_LOCAT

SHORONG HIMAL


LATITUDE

27.7


LONGITUDE

86.57


MB_1stSY

1996


MB_lastSY

1999


MB_NoObs

4

 

We have 2 glaciers in Nepal whose mass balance are being regularly done by Japanese.

Should we try to get AA profiles of those glaciers?

 

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Birbal Rana

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