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Debris cover glacier melt in the Karakoram during 2021

The assessment of meltwater sourcing from the clean and debris-covered glaciers is scarce in High Mountain Asia (HMA). The melting rate varies with the debris cover thickness and glacier orientation. The present study quantifies glacier melting rate attributed to varying thickness of debris cover in the Karakoram. We observed the melting rates by installing ablation stakes on Hinarchi and Sachen glaciers over debris-free and debris-covered ice during a field expedition. The stakes were installed on clean ice and glacier surface with debris cover thickness ranges between 0.5 and 2 cm at selected experimental sites between 2700 and 3100 m a.s.l. during July 2021.

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Date ( Publication )
2022-07-12
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( RS Specialist )
977-1-5275222
Purpose
The data provides melting of glaciers under various debris cover observed in this study to assess the critical debris thickness enhancing and insulating glacial melt in the Himalaya and the Karakoram (Hinarchi and Sachen), measured at selected test sites between 2700 and 3100 m a.s.l.
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Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Debris cover
  • melt rates
  • Glaciers
Keywords ( Place )
  • Karakoram
  • UIB
  • Pakistan
Use limitation
Free to use with attribution to the source. Suggested citation: ICIMOD. (2022). Debris cover glacier melt in the Karakoram during 2021 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973179
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Spatial representation type
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Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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  ICIMOD -
977-1-5275222
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Source
File identifier
0e39f693-fbfe-4b4a-aebc-55aec7de7657 XML
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
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Date stamp
2025-04-09T10:32:55
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( RS Specialist )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
977-1-5275238
 
 

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