Rapid mass loss of debris covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

Project Information

RAVEN

Grant agreement ID: 772751

DOI 10.3030/772751

Project closed

EC signature date 9 March 2018

Start date 1 May 2018

End date 31 January 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 000 000,00

EU contribution € 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

EIDGENOSSISCHE FORSCHUNGSANSTALT WSL
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Reply to Yang et al.: global warming and black carbon simultaneously lead to glacier mass decline over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Author(s): Jouberton, A., Miles, E. S., Shaw, T. E., McCarthy, M., Fugger, S., & Pellicciotti, F.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 120(12), 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301467120

Seasonal Dynamics of a Temperate Tibetan Glacier Revealed by High-Resolution UAV Photogrammetry and In Situ Measurements

Author(s): Wei Yang, Chuanxi Zhao, Matthew Westoby, Tandong Yao, Yongjie Wang, Francesca Pellicciotti, Jianmin Zhou, Zhen He, Evan Miles
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 12/15, 2020, Page(s) 2389, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs12152389

Controls on the relative melt rates of debris-covered glacier surfaces

Author(s): Miles ES, Steiner JF, Buri P, Immerzeel WW, Pellicciotti F
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 17(6), 2022, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6966

Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions

Author(s): Shaw, T. E., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E. S., & Pellicciotti, F
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, Issue 192(2), 2024, ISSN 2169-8996
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2023jd040214

Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia

Author(s): Compagno L; Huss M; Miles ES; McCarthy MJ; Zekollari H; Dehecq A; Pellicciotti F; Farinotti D
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 16/5, 2021, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-1697-2022

Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia

Author(s): Evan Miles, Michael McCarthy, Amaury Dehecq, Marin Kneib, Stefan Fugger, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23073-4

Intensified paraglacial slope failures due to accelerating downwasting of a temperate glacier in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Author(s): Yan Zhong, Qiao Liu, Matthew Westoby, Yong Nie, Francesca Pellicciotti, Bo Zhang, Jialun Cai, Guoxiang Liu, Haijun Liao, Xuyang Lu
Published in: Earth Surface Dynamics, Issue 10(1), 2022, Page(s) 23-42, ISSN 2196-632X
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-10-23-2022

Understanding monsoon controls on the energy and mass balance of glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya

Author(s): Fugger S, Fyffe CL, Fatichi S, Miles E, McCarthy M, Shaw TE, Ding B, Yang W, Wagnon P, Immerzeel W, Liu Q, Pellicciotti F
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 16(5), 2022, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-1631-2022

Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia

Author(s): Michael McCarthy, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 3(1), 2022, Page(s) 269-279, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2

Multi-decadal monsoon characteristics and glacier response in High Mountain Asia

Author(s): Shaw TE, Miles ES, Chen D, Jouberton A, Kneib M, Fugger S, Ou T, Lai H-W, Fujita K, Yang W, Fatichi S, Pellicciotti F
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 17(10), 2022, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9008

Sub-seasonal variability of supraglacial ice cliff melt rates and associated processes from time-lapse photogrammetry

Author(s): Marin Kneib; Evan S. Miles; Pascal Buri; Stefan Fugger; Michael McCarthy; Thomas E. Shaw; Zhao Chuanxi; Martin Truffer; Matthew J. Westoby; Wei Yang; Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 19940424, 2022, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/tc-2022-81

Mapping ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers using multispectral satellite images

Author(s): M. Kneib, E.S. Miles, S. Jola, P. Buri, S. Herreid, A. Bhattacharya, C.S. Watson, T. Bolch, D. Quincey, F. Pellicciotti
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 253, 2021, Page(s) 112201, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112201

Supraglacial ice cliffs can substantially increase the mass loss of debris-covered glaciers

Author(s): Pascal Buri, Evan Miles, Jakob Steiner, Silvan Ragettli, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 48/6, 2021, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl092150

Knowledge priorities on climate change and water in the Upper Indus Basin: a horizon scanning exercise to identify the top 100 research questions in social and natural sciences

Author(s): Andrew Orr, Bashir Ahmad, Undala Alam, ArivudaiNambi Appadurai, Zareen P.Bharucha, Hester Biemans, Tobias Bolch, Narayan P. Chaulagain, Sanita Dhaubanjar, A.P. Dimri, Harry Dixon, Hayley J. Fowler, Giovanna Gioli, Sarah J. Halvorson, Abid Hussain, Ghulam Jeelani, Simi Kamal, Imran S. Khalid, Shiyin Liu, Arthur Lutz, Meeta K. Mehra, Evan Miles, Andrea Momblanch, Veruska Muccione, Aditi Mukherji, Da
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 10 (4), 2022, Page(s) e2021EF002619, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2021ef002619

Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets

Author(s): Thomas E. Shaw, Wei Yang, Álvaro Ayala, Claudio Bravo, Chuanxi Zhao, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 15/2, 2021, Page(s) 595-614, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-595-2021

Thinning and surface mass balance patterns of two neighbouring debris-covered glaciers in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau.

Author(s): Zhao, C., Yang, W., Miles, E., Westoby, M., Kneib, M., Wang, Y., Fugger, S., … Pellicciotti, F. 
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 17(9), 2023, ISSN 1994-0424
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/tc-17-3895-2023

Automated detection of ice cliffs within supraglacial debris cover

Author(s): Sam Herreid, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: The Cryosphere, Issue 12/5, 2018, Page(s) 1811-1829, ISSN 1994-0416
Publisher: Copernicus Group
DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-1811-2018

High‐Resolution Snowline Delineation From Landsat Imagery to Infer Snow Cover Controls in a Himalayan Catchment

Author(s): Marc Girona‐Mata, Evan S. Miles, Silvan Ragettli, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 55/8, 2019, Page(s) 6754-6772, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019wr024935

Surface Pond Energy Absorption Across Four Himalayan Glaciers Accounts for 1/8 of Total Catchment Ice Loss

Author(s): Evan S. Miles, Ian Willis, Pascal Buri, Jakob F. Steiner, Neil S. Arnold, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 45/19, 2018, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2018gl079678

Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers

Author(s): W. W. Immerzeel, A. F. Lutz, M. Andrade, A. Bahl, H. Biemans, T. Bolch, S. Hyde, S. Brumby, B. J. Davies, A. C. Elmore, A. Emmer, M. Feng, A. Fernández, U. Haritashya, J. S. Kargel, M. Koppes, P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink, A. V. Kulkarni, P. A. Mayewski, S. Nepal, P. Pacheco, T. H. Painter, F. Pellicciotti, H. Rajaram, S. Rupper, A. Sinisalo, A. B. Shrestha, D. Viviroli, Y. Wada, C. Xiao, T. Yao, J. E.
Published in: Nature, Issue 577/7790, 2020, Page(s) 364-369, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y

Supraglacial ice cliffs and ponds on debris-covered glaciers: spatio-temporal distribution and characteristics

Author(s): JAKOB F. STEINER, PASCAL BURI, EVAN S. MILES, SILVAN RAGETTLI, FRANCESCA PELLICCIOTTI
Published in: Journal of Glaciology, Issue 65/252, 2019, Page(s) 617-632, ISSN 0022-1430
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2019.40

Modeling the Response of the Langtang Glacier and the Hintereisferner to a Changing Climate Since the Little Ice Age

Author(s): René R. Wijngaard, Jakob F. Steiner, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Christoph Klug, Surendra Adhikari, Argha Banerjee, Francesca Pellicciotti, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Arthur F. Lutz, Walter W. Immerzeel
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 7, 2019, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers in Earth Science
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2019.00143

Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming

Author(s): Salerno, F., Guyennon, N., Yang, K., Thomas Shaw, Lin, C., Colombo, N., …, Evan Miles, Pellicciotti, F.
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 16(12), 2023, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y

Interannual dynamics of ice cliff populations on debris-covered glaciers from remote sensing observations and stochastic modeling

Author(s): Kneib M, Miles E, Buri P, Molnar P, McCarthy M, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, Issue 126(19), 2021, ISSN 2169-9011
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2021jf006179

Warming-induced monsoon precipitation phase change intensifies glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Author(s): Jouberton A, Shaw TE, Miles E, McCarthy M, Fugger S, Ren S, Dehecq A, Yang W, Pellicciotti F
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 119(37), 2022, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: US National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109796119

The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating Alpine glacier. 

Author(s): Shaw, T. E., Buri, P., McCarthy, M., Miles, E. S., Ayala, Á., & Pellicciotti, F. 
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 50(11), 2023, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl103043

Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High‐Elevation Catchment

Author(s): Pascal Buri; Simone Fatichi; Thomas E. Shaw; Evan S. Miles; Michael J. McCarthy; Catriona L. Fyffe; Stefan Fugger; Shaoting Ren; Marin Kneib; Achille Jouberton; Jakob Steiner; Koji Fujita; Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 59 (10), 2023, ISSN 1944-7973
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2022wr033841

Anisotropy Parameterization Development and Evaluation for Glacier Surface Albedo Retrieval from Satellite Observations

Author(s): Shaoting Ren, Evan S. Miles, Li Jia, Massimo Menenti, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Michael J. McCarthy, Thomas E. Shaw, Wei Yang, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 13/9, 2021, Page(s) 1714, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13091714

 Controls on ice cliff distribution and characteristics on debris-covered glaciers

Author(s): Kneib, M., Fyffe, C. L., Miles, E. S., Lindemann, S., Shaw, T. E., Buri, P., Fugger, S., … Pellicciotti, F.
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 50(6), 2023, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl102444

Using climate reanalysis data in conjunction with multi-temporal satellite thermal imagery to derive supraglacial debris thickness changes from energy-balance modelling

Author(s): Stewart RL, Westoby M, Pellicciotti F, Rowan A, Swift D, Brock B, Woodward J
Published in: Journal of Glaciology, Issue 67(202), 2021, ISSN 1727-5652
Publisher: International Glaciological Society
DOI: 10.1017/jog.2020.111

The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers

Author(s): Sam Herreid, Francesca Pellicciotti
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 13/9, 2020, Page(s) 621-627, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0615-0