Glacier changes during the last forty years in the Tarim Interior River basin, northwest China

Shangguan, Donghui; Liu, Shiyin; Ding, Yongjian; Ding, Liuqian; Xu, Junli; Li, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.pnsc.2008.11.002

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“…The larger glaciers (area larger than 5 km 2 ), however, are less likely to have lost much percentage of their area, although the absolute area loss of larger glaciers is more remarkable. That is coincident with those studies of glacier change in some other mountainous regions around the world, for example, the European Alps (Haeberli and Hoelzle, 1995), Tarim Basin in China (Shangguan et al, 2009) and western Canada (Bolch et al, 2010). In North America, however, DeBeer and Sharp (2007) and Hoffman et al (2007) reported very limited area changes of the smallest glaciers and they suggested that most of the small glaciers are situated in locations that favor ice preservation by enhancing mass input and/or reducing ablation rates (DeBeer and Sharp, 2009).…”

Section: Glacier Changes For Different Altitude Aspect and Glacier supporting

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“…To delineate glacier outlines, all topographic maps were scanned and geo-referenced. Glacier outlines were then digitized on those maps and the map projection was transformed to WGS-84 projection based on a parameter transformation model (Shangguan et al, 2009;Xu et al, 2013;Wei et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is increasingly urgent, therefore, to monitor glacier change at regional or basin scale (Radić and Hock, 2010). Multi-temporal satellite imagery and older aerial photography have been used extensively in the past decade to quantify glacier changes in mountainous areas throughout the world (Paul, 2002;Schmidt and Nüsser, 2009;Shangguan et al, 2009;Bolch et al, 2010;Narama et al, 2010;Yao et al, 2012). The Global Land and Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project was initiated with the goal of mapping the world's glaciers using satellite imagery (Kargel et al, 2005).…”

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Glacier Changes in the Lancang River Basin, China, between 1968–1975 and 2005–2010

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Glacier Changes in the Lancang River Basin, China, between 1968–1975 and 2005–2010

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“…As the first CGI is the oldest archive of glacier extents in the west of China (e.g. Shangguan et al, 2006Shangguan et al, , 2007Shangguan et al, , 2009Liu et al, 2010), we digitized the glacier outlines of the first CGI as vector files and took them as the reference data to analyze later changes in the Gongga Mountains glaciers.…”

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Glacier changes from 1966–2009 in the Gongga Mountains, on the south-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their climatic forcing

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Abstract. In order to monitor the changes of the glaciers in the Gongga Mountain region on the south-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 74 monsoonal temperate glaciers were investigated by comparing the Chinese Glacier Inventory (CGI), recorded in the 1960s, with Landsat MSS in 1974, Landsat TM in 1989, and ASTER data in 2009. The remote sensing data have been applied to map the glacier outline by threshold ratio images (TM4/TM5). Moreover, the glacier outlines were verified by GPS survey on four large glaciers (Hailuogou (HLG), Mozigou (MZG), Yanzigou (YZG), and Dagongba (DGB)) in 2009. The results show that the area dominated by the 74 glaciers has shrunk by 11.3 % (29.2 km 2 ) from 1966 to 2009. Glacier area on the eastern and western slopes of the Gongga Mountains decreased by 9.8 % and 14.6 % since 1966, respectively. The loss in glacier area and length is, respectively, 0.8 km 2 and 1146.4 m for the HLG Glacier, 2.1 km 2 and 501.8 m for the MZG Glacier, 0.8 km 2 and 724.8 m for the YZG Glacier, and 2.4 km 2 and 1002.3 m for the DGB Glacier. Decades of climate records obtained from three meteorological stations in the Gongga Mountains were analyzed to evaluate the impact of the temperature and precipitation on glacier retreat. The mean annual temperatures over the eastern and western slopes of the Gongga Mountains have been increasing by 0.34 K decade −1 and 0.24 K decade −1 , respectively. Moreover, mean annual precipitation has only increased by 1 % in the past 50 yr. The increasing amount of precipitation could not compensate for the glacier mass loss due to the temperature increase in the Gongga Mountains. This suggests that the warming of the climate is probably also responsible for the glacier retreat in the study region. At the region scale, glacier changes were also controlled by local topographical factors.

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“…There have been recent efforts to document the glacier area loss in different mountain regions (Li et al, 2008;Kang et al, 2010) or drainage basins (e.g., Liu et al, 2006;Shangguan et al, 2009) of western China, but none of these inventories has emphasized on the whole LRB. The Lancang River originates at the inland high Tibetan Plateau; flows through China to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam; is here renamed the Mekong River; and then ultimately merges into the South China Sea.…”

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Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

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Nüsser

2012

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Glacier changes during the last forty years in the Tarim Interior River basin, northwest China

Cited by 81 publications

References 27 publications

Glacier Changes in the Lancang River Basin, China, between 1968–1975 and 2005–2010

Glacier Changes in the Lancang River Basin, China, between 1968–1975 and 2005–2010

Glacier changes from 1966–2009 in the Gongga Mountains, on the south-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their climatic forcing

Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

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