774
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Spatial surface velocity pattern in the glaciers of Chandra Basin, Western Himalaya

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 5327-5344 | Received 29 Jan 2020, Accepted 05 Apr 2021, Published online: 20 May 2021

References

  • Azam MF, Wagnon P, Ramanathan A, Vincent C, Sharma P, Arnaud Y, Linda A, Pottakkal JG, Chevallier P, Singh VB, et al. 2012. From balance to imbalance: A shift in the dynamic behaviour of Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya. J Glaciol. 58(208):315–324.
  • Bajracharya SR, Shrestha B (eds). 2011. The status of glaciers in the Hindu Kush–Himalayan region. Kathmandu: ICIMOD, ISBN 978 92 9115 2155.
  • Banerjee A, Shankar R. 2013. On the response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change. J Glaciol. 59(215):480–490.
  • Bhambri R, Hewitt K, Kawishwar P, Pratap B. 2017. Surge-type and surge-modified glaciers in the Karakoram. Sci Rep. 7(1):1–14.
  • Bhushan S, Syed TH, Arendt AA, Kulkarni AV, Sinha D. 2018. Assessing controls on mass budget and surface velocity variations of glaciers in western Himalaya. Sci Rep. 8(1):8885.
  • Bookhagen B, Burbank DW. 2006. Topography, relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya. Geophys Res Lett. 33(8):L08405.
  • Brun F, Berthier E, Wagnon P, Kääb A, Treichler D. 2017. A spatially resolved estimate of high mountain Asia glacier mass balances, 2000–2016. Nat Geosci. 10(9):668–673.
  • Carrivick JL, Tweed FS. 2013. Proglacial lakes: Character, behaviour and geological importance. Quat Sci Rev. 78:34–52.
  • Cuffey KM, Paterson WSB. 2010. The physics of glaciers, 4 ed. New York: Academic Press.
  • Dehecq A, Gourmelen N, Trouve E. 2015. Deriving large-scale glacier velocities from a complete satellite archive: Application to the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya. Remote Sens Environ. 162:55–66.
  • Dunse T, Schellenberger T, Hagen JO, Kääb A, Schuler TV, Reijmer CH. 2015. Glacier-surge mechanisms promoted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer melt. Cryosphere. 9(1):197–215.
  • Fahnestock M, Scambos T, Moon T, Gardner A, Haran T, Klinger M. 2016. Rapid large-area mapping of ice flow using Landsat 8. Remote Sens Environ. 185:84–94.
  • Gantayat P, Kulkarni AV, Srinivasan J. 2014. Estimation of ice thickness using surface velocities and slope: A case study at Gangotri glacier. J Glaciol. 60(220):277–282.
  • Gardner AS, Moholdt G, Scambos T, Fahnstock M, Ligtenberg S, Van Den Broeke M, Nilsson J. 2018. Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years. Cryosphere. 12(2):521–547.
  • Garg PK, Shukla A, Tiwari RK, Jasrotia AS. 2017. Assessing the status of glaciers in part of the Chandra basin, Himachal Himalaya: A multiparametric approach. Geomorphology. 284:99–114.
  • Hambrey MJ, Glasser NF. 2012. Discriminating glacier thermal and dynamic regimes in the sedimentary record. Sediment. Geol. 251–252:1–33.
  • Haritashya UK, Pleasants MS, Copland L. 2015. Assessment of the evolution in velocity of two debris‐covered valley glaciers in Nepal and New Zealand. Geogr Ann Ser A Phys Geogr. 97(4):737–751.
  • Jiskoot H, Murray T, Boyle P. 2000. Controls on the distribution of surge-type glaciers in Svalbard. J Glaciol. 46(154):412–422.
  • Kääb A. 2005. Combination of SRTM3 and repeat ASTER data for deriving alpine glacier flow velocities in the Bhutan Himalaya. Remote Sens Environ. 94(4):463–474.
  • King O, Dehecq A, Quincey D, Carrivick J. 2018. Contrasting geometric and dynamic evolution of lake and land-terminating glaciers in the central Himalaya. Glob Planet Change. 167:46–60.
  • Kirkbride MP. 2011. Debris-covered glaciers. In: Singh VP, Singh P, Haritashya UK, editors. Encyclopedia of snow, ice and glaciers. New York: Springer. p. 190–192.
  • Kraaijenbrink P, Meijer SW, Shea JM, Pellicciotti F, De Jong SM, Immerzeel WW. 2016. Seasonal surface velocities of a Himalayan glacier derived by automated correlation of unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. Ann Glaciol. 57(71):103–113.
  • Kumar P, Saharwardi MS, Banerjee A, Azam MF, Dubey AK, Murtugudde R. 2019. Snowfall variability dictates glacier mass balance variability in Himalaya-Karakoram. Sci Rep. 9(1):18192.
  • Kumar V, Venkataramana G, Høgda KA. 2011. Glacier surface velocity estimation using SAR interferometry technique applying ascending and descending passes in Himalayas. Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinform. 13(4):545–551.
  • Luckman A, Quincey D, Bevan S. 2007. The potential of satellite radar interferometry and feature tracking for monitoring flow rates of Himalayan glaciers. Remote Sens Environ. 111(2–3):172–181.
  • Marshall SJ, White EC, Demuth MN, Bolch T, Wheate R, Menounos B, Beedle MJ, Shea JM. 2011. Glacier water resources on the eastern slopes of the Canadian rocky mountains. Can Water Resour J. 36(2):109–134.
  • Moon T, Joughin I, Smith B, Howat I. 2012. 21st-century evolution of Greenland outlet glacier velocities. Science. 336(6081):576–578.
  • Owen LA, England J. 1998. Observations on rock glaciers in the Himalayas and Karakoram mountains of northern Pakistan and India. Geomorphology. 26(1–3):199–213.
  • Patel A, Dharpure JK, Snehmani, Ganju A. 2019. Estimating surface ice velocity on Chhota Shigri glacier from satellite data using particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique. Geocarto Int. 34(4):335–347.
  • Patel LK, Sharma P, Laluraj CM, Thamban M, Singh A, Ravindra R. 2017. A geospatial analysis of Samudra tapu and Gepang Gath glacial lakes in the Chandra basin, western Himalaya. Nat Hazards. 86(3):1275–1290.
  • Patel LK, Sharma P, Thamban M, Singh A, Ravindra R. 2016. Debris control on glacier thinning—A case study of the Batal glacier, Chandra basin, Western Himalaya. Arab J Geosci. 9(4):309.
  • Pratap B, Srivastava D, Dobhal D, Swaroop S. 2012. Flow characteristics of the Dunagiri glacier, Garhwal Himalaya. J Indus Geol Cong. 4(1):113–118.
  • Quincey DJ, Glasser NF. 2009. Morphological and ice-dynamical changes on the Tasman glacier, New Zealand, 1990–2007. Global Planet Change. 68(3):185–197.
  • Rignot E, Kanagaratnam P. 2006. Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland ice sheet. Science. 311(5763):986–990.
  • Rowan AV, David L, Duncan E, Quincey J, Glasser NF. 2015. Modelling the feedbacks between mass balance, ice flow and debris transport to predict the response to climate change of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya. Earth Planet Sci Lett. 430:427–438.
  • Ruiz L, Berthier E, Masiokas M, Pitte P, Villalba R. 2015. First surface velocity maps for glaciers of monte tornado, north Patagonian Andes, derived from sequential pléiades satellite images. J Glaciol. 61(229):908–922.
  • Sahu R, Gupta R. 2019a. Surface velocity dynamics of Samudra Tapu glacier, India from 2013 to 2017 using Landsat-8 data. ISPRS Ann Photogramm Remote Sens Spatial Inf Sci. IV-5/W2:75–81.
  • Sahu R, Gupta RD. 2019b. Spatiotemporal variation in surface velocity in Chandra basin glacier between 1999 and 2017 using Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 imagery. Geocarto Int. 1–21.
  • Sam L, Bhardwaj A, Kumar R, Buchroithner MF, Martín-Torres FJ. 2018. Heterogeneity in topographic control on velocities of western Himalayan glaciers. Sci Rep. 8(1):12843.
  • Sangewar CV, Shukla SP. 2009. Inventory of the Himalayan Glaciers: A contribution to the international hydrological programme. Special Publication No. 34, Geological Survey of India, pp. 155–179.
  • Satyabala SP. 2016. Spatiotemporal variations in surface velocity of the Gangotri glacier, Garhwal Himalaya, India: Study using synthetic aperture radar data. Remote Sens Environ. 181:151–161.
  • Scherler D, Bookhagen B, Strecker MR. 2011. Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover. Nature Geosci. 4(3):156–159.
  • Scherler D, Leprince S, Strecker MR. 2008. Glacier-surface velocities in alpine terrain from optical satellite imagery—Accuracy improvement and quality assessment. Remote Sens Environ. 112(10):3806–3819.
  • Sharma P, Patel LK, Ravindra R, Singh A, Mahalinganathan K, Thamban M. 2016. Role of debris cover to control specific ablation of adjoining Batal and Sutri Dhaka glaciers in Chandra basin (Himachal Pradesh) during peak ablation season. J Earth Syst Sci. 125(3):459–473.
  • Shukla A, Gupta RP, Arora MK. 2009. Estimation of debris cover and its temporal variation using optical satellite sensor data: a case study in Chenab basin. J Glaciol. 55(191):444–452.
  • Shukla S, Mishra R, Chitranshi A. 2015. Dynamics of Hamtah glacier, Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh. J Ind Geophys Union. 19(4):414–421.
  • Singh AT, Laluraj C, Sharma P, Patel LK, Thamban M. 2017. Export fluxes of geochemical solutes in the meltwater stream of Sutri Dhaka glacier, Chandra basin, Western Himalaya. Environ Monit Assess. 189(11):555.
  • Singh G, Nela BR, Bandyopadhyay D, Mohanty S, Kulkarni AV. 2020. Discovering anomalous dynamics and disintegrating behaviour in glaciers of Chandra-Bhaga sub-basins, part of western Himalaya using DinSAR. Remote Sens Environ. 246(111885):111885.
  • Tachikawa T, Hato M, Kaku M, Iwasaki A. 2011. The characteristics of ASTER GDEM version 2, Proc. IGARSS 2011 Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 24–29 July 2011, 3657–3660.
  • Tiwari R, Gupta R, Arora M. 2014. Estimation of surface ice velocity of Chhota Shigri glacier using sub-pixel ASTER image correlation. Curr Sci. 106(6):853–859.
  • Truffer M. 2004. The basal speed of valley glaciers: An inverse approach. J Glaciol. 50(169):236–242.
  • Wagnon P, Linda A, Arnaud Y, Kumar R, Sharma P, Vincent C, Pottakkal JG, Berthier E, Ramanathan A, Hasnain SI, et al. 2007. Four years of mass balance on Chhota Shigri glacier, Himachal Pradesh, India, a new benchmark glacier in the Western Himalaya. J Glaciol. 53(183):603–611.
  • Watson CS, Quincey DJ. 2015. Glacier movement. Br Soc Geomorphol.
  • Yellala A, Kumar V, Høgda KA. 2019. Bara Shigri and Chhota Shigri glacier velocity estimation in western Himalaya using Sentinel-1 SAR data. Int J Remote Sens. 40(15):5861–5874.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.