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Rapid mass loss of debris covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

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Coordinator
EIDGENOSSICHEN FORSCHUNGSANSTALT FUR WALD SCHNEE UND LANDSCHAFT 

Organization address
address: ZUERCHERSTRASSE 111
city: BIRMENSDORF
postcode: 8903
website: www.wsl.ch

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 Coordinator Country Switzerland [CH]
 Total cost 2˙000˙000 €
 EC max contribution 2˙000˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-COG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-05-01   to  2023-04-30

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    EIDGENOSSICHEN FORSCHUNGSANSTALT FUR WALD SCHNEE UND LANDSCHAFT CH (BIRMENSDORF) coordinator 2˙000˙000.00

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 Project objective

The research proposed uses an integrated data-modelling approach to elucidate the role that debris-covered glaciers play in the water cycle of High Mountain Asia (HMA) and establish how future HMA glacier and runoff will evolve. Debris-covered glaciers are of great significance for the hydrology of HMA, with large contributions to headwater streamflow. Despite this, their mass balance, hydrological role and future changes are poorly constrained, challenging model predictions of future water resources. Debris mantles insulate the ice and reduce ablation, but large-scale research indicates that HMA debris-covered glaciers are losing mass at rates similar to debris-free glaciers. This anomalous behaviour has profound implications for future glacier mass balance and runoff, but has not been reproduced with models, a fundamental limitation to a global assessment. I aim to establish that: 1) supraglacial cliffs and ponds are responsible for higher than expected mass losses of HMA debris-covered glaciers, because they act as windows of energy transfer through the debris; and that 2) their inclusion into models of glacier evolution will provide essential new estimates of glacier changes and future water availability in HMA. RAVEN will achieve these aims through combination of high-resolution satellite observations, field data and physically-based models in four sites along the Himalayan arc. This unprecedented setup captures the variety of climate and glaciers across HMA. Using satellite images I will investigate the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of cliffs and ponds; the insights will be used to develop physically-based models of cliff and pond ablation, which will be included in a glacio-hydrological model. Future glacier and runoff response will be projected using downscaled climate scenarios, allowing new estimates of glacier changes and future runoff for a data-starved region where millions of people depend on the water resources from glaciers and snow.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 JAKOB F. STEINER, PASCAL BURI, EVAN S. MILES, SILVAN RAGETTLI, FRANCESCA PELLICCIOTTI
Supraglacial ice cliffs and ponds on debris-covered glaciers: spatio-temporal distribution and characteristics
published pages: 617-632, ISSN: 0022-1430, DOI: 10.1017/jog.2019.40
Journal of Glaciology 65/252 2020-02-13
2019 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
Modeling the Response of the Langtang Glacier and the Hintereisferner to a Changing Climate Since the Little Ice Age
published pages: , ISSN: 2296-6463, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2019.00143
Frontiers in Earth Science 7 2020-02-13
2019 Marc Girona‐Mata, Evan S. Miles, Silvan Ragettli, Francesca Pellicciotti
High‐Resolution Snowline Delineation From Landsat Imagery to Infer Snow Cover Controls in a Himalayan Catchment
published pages: 6754-6772, ISSN: 0043-1397, DOI: 10.1029/2019wr024935
Water Resources Research 55/8 2020-02-13
2018 Sam Herreid, Francesca Pellicciotti
Automated detection of ice cliffs within supraglacial debris cover
published pages: 1811-1829, ISSN: 1994-0416, DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-1811-2018
The Cryosphere 12/5 2020-02-13
2018 Evan S. Miles, Ian Willis, Pascal Buri, Jakob F. Steiner, Neil S. Arnold, Francesca Pellicciotti
Surface Pond Energy Absorption Across Four Himalayan Glaciers Accounts for 1/8 of Total Catchment Ice Loss
published pages: , ISSN: 0094-8276, DOI: 10.1029/2018gl079678
Geophysical Research Letters 45/19 2020-02-13
2020 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.
Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers
published pages: 364-369, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1822-y
Nature 577/7790 2020-02-13

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