Investigating mass balance of Parvati glacier in Himalaya using satellite imagery based model.

ABSTRACT: Accurate assessment of glacier mass loss is essential for understanding the glacier sensitivity to climate change and the ramifications of glacier retreat or surge. The glacier melt affects the runoff and water availability, on which the drinking and irrigation water supplies and generation of hydroelectric energy depend upon. The excessive glacial retreat may cause flood, glacial lake outburst flood, avalanches and sea level rise which are likely to affect the lives and livelihood of the people and damage the infrastructure. Here, we present a remote sensing based modeling framework to improve the understanding of accumulation and ablation processes and to quantify the glacier mass balance using multispectral satellite imageries, as several glacierized regions of the world are still poorl

SUBMITTER: Tak S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376227 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature