Mass Loss from Glaciers in the Chinese Altai Mountains between 1959 and 2008 Revealed Based on Historical Maps, SRTM, and ASTER Images

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	Mass Loss from Glaciers in the Chinese Altai Mountains between 1959 and 2008 Revealed Based on Historical Maps, SRTM, and ASTER Images
	WEI Jun-feng ; LIU Shi-yin ; XU Jun-li ; GUO Wan-qin ; BAO Wei-jia ; SHANGGUAN Dong-hui ; JIANG Zong-li
刊名	Journal of Mountain Science
	2015-03
卷号	12 期号:2 页码:330-343
关键词	Altai Mountains Geodetic method Glacier change Mass balance
ISSN号	1672-6316
通讯作者	LIU Shi-yin
英文摘要	Mass loss of glaciers in the Chinese Altai was detected using geodetic methods based on topographical maps (1959), the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (2000), and the Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) stereo images (2008). The results indicate that a continued and accelerating shrinkage has occurred in the Chinese Altai Mountains during the last 50 years, with mass deficits of 0.43 ± 0.02 and 0.54 ± 0.13 m a−1 water equivalent (w.e.) during the periods 1959−1999 and 1999−2008, respectively. Overall, the Chinese Altai Mountains have lost 7.06 ± 0.44 km3 in ice volume (equivalent to −0.43 ± 0.03 m a−1w.e.) from 1959−2008. The spatial heterogeneity in mass loss was potentially affected by comprehensive changes in temperature and precipitation, and had a substantial correlation with glacier size and topographic settings. Comparison shows that in the Chinese Altai Mountains glaciers have experienced a more rapid mass loss than those in the Tianshan and northwestern Tibetan Plateau (TP), and the mass balance of glaciers was slightly less negative relative to those in the Russian Altai, Himalaya, and southern TP.
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/7971]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_Journal of Mountain Science _Journal of Mountain Science-2015_Vol12 No.2
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	WEI Jun-feng,LIU Shi-yin,XU Jun-li,et al. Mass Loss from Glaciers in the Chinese Altai Mountains between 1959 and 2008 Revealed Based on Historical Maps, SRTM, and ASTER Images[J]. Journal of Mountain Science,2015,12(2):330-343.
APA	WEI Jun-feng.,LIU Shi-yin.,XU Jun-li.,GUO Wan-qin.,BAO Wei-jia.,...&JIANG Zong-li.(2015).Mass Loss from Glaciers in the Chinese Altai Mountains between 1959 and 2008 Revealed Based on Historical Maps, SRTM, and ASTER Images.Journal of Mountain Science,12(2),330-343.
MLA	WEI Jun-feng,et al."Mass Loss from Glaciers in the Chinese Altai Mountains between 1959 and 2008 Revealed Based on Historical Maps, SRTM, and ASTER Images".Journal of Mountain Science 12.2(2015):330-343.