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Further Reading
NASA Earth Observatory (2011, November 2)
IceBridge: Building a Record of Earth’s Changing Ice, One Flight at a Time.
NASA Earth Observatory (2010, November 2)
Aerosols: Tiny Particles, Big Impact.
References
Bolch, T.
et al
(2012, April 20)
The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers.
Science,
336 (6079), 310-314.
Casey, K.
et al
(2012, January 19)
Geochemical characterization of glacier debris via in situ and optical remote sensing methods: a case study in the Khumbu Himalaya, Nepal.
The Cryosphere,
6, 85-100.
Casey, K. (2012)
Supraglacial dust and debris: geochemical comparisons from glaciers in Svalbard, southern Norway, Nepal and New Zealand.
Earth System Science Data Discussions,
5, 107-145.
Casey, K. and Kääb, A. (2012, September 7)
Estimation of Supraglacial Dust and Debris Geochemical Composition via Satellite Reflectance and Emissivity.
Remote Sensing,
4 (9), 2554-2575.
European Space Agency (2008)
Globglacier.
Accessed May 3, 2013.
Gautam, R.
et al
(2013, March 16)
Satellite observations of desert dust-induced Himalayan snow darkening.
Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (5), 988-993.
Hansen, J.
et al
(2009, December 8)
Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers.
PNAS, 106 (52), 22114-22118.
Kääb, A.
et al
(2012, August 23)
Contrasting Patterns of Early Twenty-First-Century Glacier Mass Change in the Himalayas.
Nature,
488, 498-495.
NASA (2012, April 2)
Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying How Debris Influences Glaciers.
Accessed May 3, 2013.
Oerlemans, J.,
et al
(2009, September)
Retreating alpine glaciers: increased melt rates due to accumulation of dust (Vadret da Morteratsch, Switzerland).
Journal of Glaciology,
55 (192), 729-736.
Randolph Glacier Inventory
GLIMS: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space.
Accessed May 3, 2013.
Scherler, D.
et al
(2011, January 23)
Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover.
Nature Geoscience,
4, 156-159.
Warren, S. and Wiscombe, W. (1980, December)
A Model for the Spectral Albedo of Snow. II: Snow Containing Atmospheric Aerosols.
Journal of Atmospheric Science,
37 (12), 2734-2745.
Wired (2011, January 24)
Himalayan Glaciers Shrinking, With Some Exceptions.
Accessed May 3, 2013.
Wiscombe, W. & Warren, S. (1980, December)
A Model for the Spectral Albedo of Snow. I: Pure Snow.
Journal of Atmospheric Science,
37 (12), 2712-2733.
World Glacier Monitoring Service (2008)
Global Glacier Changes: facts and figures.
Accessed May 3, 2013.
Zemp, M. (2011, May)
The monitoring of glaciers at local, mountain and global scale.
Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der Venia Legendi, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Introduction
A Global View of Glaciers
Sensing Glacial Surfaces
Ice in the Field
Mining the Spectra
A Hyperspectral View
References
Snow and Ice
Introduction
A Global View of Glaciers
Sensing Glacial Surfaces
Ice in the Field
Mining the Spectra
A Hyperspectral View
References
Snow and Ice
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