248
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Glacial lakes control ice flow: new insights from satellite SAR PO-SBAS observations in Duiya Glacier, southern Tibetan Plateau

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, , ORCID Icon, & show all
Article: 2365964 | Received 08 Jan 2024, Accepted 04 Jun 2024, Published online: 19 Jun 2024

References

  • Ahmed, R., G. F. Wani, S. T. Ahmad, M. Sahana, H. Singh, and P. Ahmed. 2021. “A Review of Glacial Lake Expansion and Associated Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Himalayan Region.” Earth Systems and Environment 5 (3): 695–708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00230-9.
  • Alley, R. B., T. K. Dupont, B. R. Parizek, and S. Anandakrishnan. 2005. “Access of Surface Melt-Water to Beds of sub-Freezing Glaciers: Preliminary Insights.” Annals of Glaciology 40: 8–14. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756405781813483.
  • Benn, D. I., and D. J. A. Evans. 2010. Glaciers and Glaciation. 2nd ed. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203785010.
  • Benn, D. I., N. R. J. Hulton, and R. H. Mottram. 2007a. “‘Calving Laws’, ‘Sliding Laws’ and the Stability of Tidewater Glaciers.” Annals of Glaciology 46: 123–130. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407782871161.
  • Benn, D. I., C. R. Warren, and R. H. Mottram. 2007b. “Calving Processes and the Dynamics of Calving Glaciers.” Earth-Science Reviews 82 (3): 143–179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.02.002.
  • Besl, P. J., and N. D. McKay. 1992. “A Method for Registration of 3-d Shapes.” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 14 (2): 239–256. https://doi.org/10.1109/34.121791.
  • Beyer, R., O. Alexandrov, Scott McMichael, M. Broxton, M. Lundy, K. Husmann, L. Edwards, et al. 2020. “Neogeographytoolkit/stereopipeline 2.7.0 (2.7.0).” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3963341.
  • Bolch, T., M. F. Buchroithner, J. Peters, M. Baessler, and S. Bajracharya. 2008. “Identification of Glacier Motion and Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the mt. Everest Region/Nepal Using Spaceborne Imagery.” Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 8 (6): 1329–1340. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-8-1329-2008.
  • Braithwaite, R. J., and S. C. B. Raper. 2017. “Estimating Equilibrium-Line Altitude (ELA) from Glacier Inventory Data.” Annals of Glaciology 50 (53): 127–132. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756410790595930.
  • Carrivick, J. L., and F. S. Tweed. 2013. “Pro-glacial Lakes: Character, Behaviour and Geological Importance.” Quaternary Science Reviews 78: 34–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.028.
  • Chen, W., T. Yao, G. Zhang, F. Li, G. Zheng, Y. Zhou, and F. Xu. 2022. “Towards ice-Thickness Inversion: An Evaluation of Global Digital Elevation Models (Dems) in the Glacierized Tibetan Plateau.” The Cryosphere 16 (1): 197–218. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-197-2022.
  • Copland, L., T. Sylvestre, M. P. Bishop, J. F. Shroder, Y. B. Seong, L. A. Owen, A. Bush, and U. Kamp. 2011. “Expanded and Recently Increased Glacier Surging in the Karakoram.” Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43 (4): 503–516. https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-43.4.503.
  • Dehecq, A., N. Gourmelen, A. S. Gardner, F. Brun, D. Goldberg, P. W. Nienow, E. Berthier, C. Vincent, P. Wagnon, and E. Trouvé. 2019. “Twenty-first Century Glacier Slowdown Driven by Mass Loss in High Mountain Asia.” Nature Geoscience 12 (1): 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0271-9.
  • Dell, R., R. Carr, E. Phillips, and A. J. Russell. 2019. “Response of Glacier Flow and Structure to pro-Glacial Lake Development and Climate at Fjallsjökull, South-East Iceland.” Journal of Glaciology 65 (250): 321–336. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.18.
  • Euillades, L. D., P. A. Euillades, N. C. Riveros, M. H. Masiokas, L. Ruiz, P. Pitte, S. Elefante, F. Casu, and S. Balbarani. 2016. “Detection of Glaciers Displacement Time-Series Using sar.” Remote Sensing of Environment 184: 188–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.003.
  • Fahnestock, M., T. Scambos, T. Moon, A. Gardner, T. Haran, and M. Klinger. 2016. “Rapid Large-Area Mapping of ice Flow Using Landsat 8.” Remote Sensing of Environment 185: 84–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.023.
  • Haemmig, C., M. Huss, H. Keusen, J. Hess, U. Wegmüller, Z. Ao, and W. Kulubayi. 2014. “Hazard Assessment of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods from Kyagar Glacier, Karakoram Mountains, China.” Annals of Glaciology 55 (66): 34–44. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014AoG66A001.
  • Hanshaw, M. N., and B. Bookhagen. 2014. “Glacial Areas, Lake Areas, and Snow Lines from 1975 to 2012: Status of the Cordillera Vilcanota, Including the Quelccaya ice cap, Northern Central Andes, Peru.” The Cryosphere 8 (2): 359–376. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-359-2014.
  • Harper, J. T., J. H. Bradford, N. F. Humphrey, and T. W. Meierbachtol. 2010. “Vertical Extension of the sub-Glacial Drainage System Into Basal Crevasses.” Nature 467 (7315): 579–582. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09398.
  • Huss, M., and D. Farinotti. 2012. “Distributed ice Thickness and Volume of all Glaciers Around the Globe.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 117 (F04010). https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JF002523.
  • King, O., A. Bhattacharya, R. Bhambri, and T. Bolch. 2019. “Glacial Lakes Exacerbate Himalayan Glacier Mass Loss.” Scientific Reports 9 (1): 18145. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53733-x.
  • King, O., A. Dehecq, D. Quincey, and J. Carrivick. 2018. “Contrasting Geometric and Dynamic Evolution of Lake and Land-Terminating Glaciers in the Central Himalaya.” Global and Planetary Change 167: 46–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.05.006.
  • King, O., D. J. Quincey, J. L. Carrivick, and A. V. Rowan. 2017. “Spatial Variability in Mass Loss of Glaciers in the Everest Region, Central Himalayas, Between 2000 and 2015.” The Cryosphere 11 (1): 407–426. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-407-2017.
  • Kumar, V., G. Venkataramana, and K. A. Høgda. 2011. “Glacier Surface Velocity Estimation Using sar Interferometry Technique Applying Ascending and Descending Passes in Himalayas.” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 13 (4): 545–551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2011.02.004.
  • Lemos, A., A. Shepherd, M. McMillan, and A. E. Hogg. 2018. “Seasonal Variations in the Flow of Land-Terminating Glaciers in Central-West Greenland Using Sentinel-1 Imagery.” Remote Sensing 10 (12): 1878. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10121878.
  • Li, J., Z. Li, L. Wu, B. Xu, J. Hu, Y. Zhou, and Z. Miao. 2018. “Deriving a Time Series of 3d Glacier Motion to Investigate Interactions of a Large Mountain Glacial System with its Glacial Lake: Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar Pixel Offset-Small Baseline Subset Technique.” Journal of Hydrology 559: 596–608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.02.067.
  • Liu, Q., C. Mayer, X. Wang, Y. Nie, K. Wu, J. Wei, and S. Liu. 2020. “Interannual Flow Dynamics Driven by Frontal Retreat of a Lake-Terminating Glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 546: 116450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116450.
  • Lv, M., H. Guo, X. Lu, G. Liu, S. Yan, Z. Ruan, Y. Ding, and D. J. Quincey. 2019. “Characterizing the Behaviour of Surge- and non-Surge-Type Glaciers in the Kingata Mountains, Eastern Pamir, from 1999 to 2016.” The Cryosphere 13 (1): 219–236. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-219-2019.
  • Maurer, J. M., J. M. Schaefer, S. Rupper, and A. Corley. 2019. “Acceleration of ice Loss Across the Himalayas Over the Past 40 Years.” Science Advances 5 (6): eaav7266. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav7266.
  • Meier, M. F. 1962. “Proposed Definitions for Glacier Mass Budget Terms.” Journal of Glaciology 4 (33): 252–263. https://doi.org/10.3189/S0022143000027544.
  • Miles, E., M. McCarthy, A. Dehecq, M. Kneib, S. Fugger, and F. Pellicciotti. 2021. “Health and Sustainability of Glaciers in High Mountain Asia.” Nature Communications 12: 2868. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23073-4.
  • Moon, T., and I. Joughin. 2008. “Changes in ice Front Position on Greenland's Outlet Glaciers from 1992 to 2007.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 113 (F02022), https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JF000927.
  • Nie, Y., Y. Sheng, Q. Liu, L. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Zhang, and C. Song. 2017. “A Regional-Scale Assessment of Himalayan Glacial Lake Changes Using Satellite Observations from 1990 to 2015.” Remote Sensing of Environment 189: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.008.
  • Nie, Y., Y. Zhang, L. Liu, and J. Zhang. 2010. “Monitoring Glacier Change Based on Remote Sensing in the mt. Qomolangma National Nature Preserve, 1976-2006.” Acta Geographica Sinica 65 (1): 13–28. https://doi.org/10.11821/xb201001003.
  • Nuth, C., and A. Kääb. 2011. “Co-registration and Bias Corrections of Satellite Elevation Data Sets for Quantifying Glacier Thickness Change.” The Cryosphere 5 (1): 271–290. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-271-2011.
  • Nye, J. F. 1951. “The Flow of Glaciers and ice-Sheets as a Problem in Plasticity.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 207 (1091): 554–572. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098rspa.1951.0140.
  • Owen, K., A. Dehecq, D. Quincey, and J. Carrivick. 2018. “Contrasting Geometric and Dynamic Evolution of Lake and Land-Terminating Glaciers in the Central Himalaya.” Global and Planetary Change 167: 46–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.05.006.
  • Owen, K., D. J. Quincey, J. L. Carrivick, and A. V. Rowan. 2017. “Spatial Variablity in Mass Loss of Glaciers in the Everest Region, Central Himalayas, Between 2000 and 2015.” The Cryosphere 11: 407–426. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-407-2017.
  • Paul, F., and F. Svoboda. 2009. “A new Glacier Inventory on Southern Baffin Island, Canada, from Aster Data: Ii. Data Analysis, Glacier Change and Applications.” Annals of Glaciology 50 (53): 22–31. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756410790595921.
  • Pronk, J. B., T. Bolch, O. King, B. Wouters, and D. I. Benn. 2021. “Contrasting Surface Velocities Between Lake- and Land-Terminating Glaciers in the Himalayan Region.” The Cryosphere 15 (12): 5577–5599. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5577-2021.
  • Ryan, J. C., A. L. Hubbard, J. Todd, J. R. Carr, J. E. Box, P. Christoffersen, T. O. Holt, and N. Snooke. 2014. “Repeat uav Photogrammetry to Assess Calving Front Dynamics at a Large Outlet Glacier Draining the Greenland ice Sheet.” The Cryosphere Discussions 8 (2): 2243–2275. https://doi.org/10.5194/tcd-8-2243-2014.
  • Sahu, R., R. Ramsankaran, R. Bhambri, P. Verma, and P. Chand. 2023. “Evolution of Supra-Glacial Lakes from 1990 to 2020 in the Himalaya–Karakoram Region Using Cloud-Based Google Earth Engine Platform.” Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 51 (12): 2379–2390. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-023-01773-2.
  • Samsonov, S., K. Tiampo, and R. Cassotto. 2021a. “Measuring the State and Temporal Evolution of Glaciers in Alaska and Yukon Using Synthetic-Aperture-Radar-Derived (sar-Derived) 3D Time Series of Glacier Surface Flow.” The Cryosphere 15 (9): 4221–4239. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4221-2021.
  • Samsonov, S., K. Tiampo, and R. Cassotto. 2021b. “Sar-derived Flow Velocity and its Link to Glacier Surface Elevation Change and Mass Balance.” Remote Sensing of Environment 258: 112343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112343.
  • Shi, Y., G. Liu, X. Wang, Q. Liu, C. K. Shum, J. Bao, and W. Mao. 2022. “Investigating the Intra-Annual Dynamics of Kunlun Glacier in the West Kunlun Mountains, China, from Ascending and Descending Sentinel-1 sar Observations.” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15: 1272–1282. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3142990.
  • Shugar, D. H., A. Burr, U. K. Haritashya, J. S. Kargel, C. S. Watson, M. C. Kennedy, A. R. Bevington, R. A. Betts, S. Harrison, and K. Strattman. 2020. “Rapid Worldwide Growth of Glacial Lakes Since 1990.” Nature Climate Change 10 (10): 939–945. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0855-4.
  • Solgaard, A. M., D. Rapp, B. P. Y. Noël, and C. S. Hvidberg. 2022. “Seasonal Patterns of Greenland ice Velocity from Sentinel-1 sar Data Linked to Runoff.” Geophysical Research Letters 49 (24): e2022GL100343. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100343.
  • Strozzi, T., A. Luckman, T. Murray, U. Wegmuller, and C. L. Werner. 2002. “Glacier Motion Estimation Using sar Offset-Tracking Procedures.” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (11): 2384–2391. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2002.805079.
  • Stubblefield, A. G., T. T. Creyts, J. Kingslake, and M. Spiegelman. 2019. “Modeling Oscillations in Connected Glacial Lakes.” Journal of Glaciology 65 (253): 745–758. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.46.
  • Sugiyama, S., P. Skvarca, N. Naito, H. Enomoto, S. Tsutaki, K. Tone, S. Marinsek, and M. Aniya. 2011. “Ice Speed of a Calving Glacier Modulated by Small Fluctuations in Basal Water Pressure.” Nature Geoscience 4 (9): 597–600. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1218.
  • Sutherland, J. L., J. L. Carrivick, N. Gandy, J. Shulmeister, D. J. Quincey, and S. L. Cornford. 2020. “Pro-glacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession.” Geophysical Research Letters 47 (19): e2020GL088865. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088865.
  • Tang, X., X. Lv, and Y. He. 2013. “Features of Climate Change and Their Effects on Glacier Snow Melting in Xinjiang, China.” Comptes Rendus Geoscience 345 (2): 93–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2013.01.005.
  • Taylor, C., T. R. Robinson, S. Dunning, J. Rachel Carr, and M. Westoby. 2023. “Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Threaten Millions Globally.” Nature Communications 14 (1): 487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36033-x.
  • Truffer, M., and R. J. Motyka. 2016. “Where Glaciers Meet Water: Subaqueous Melt and its Relevance to Glaciers in Various Settings.” Reviews of Geophysics 54 (1): 220–239. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015RG000494.
  • Tsutaki, S., D. Nishimura, T. Yoshizawa, and S. Sugiyama. 2011. “Changes in Glacier Dynamics Under the Influence of pro-Glacial Lake Formation in Rhonegletscher, Switzerland.” Annals of Glaciology 52 (58): 31–36. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756411797252194.
  • Usman, M., and M. Furuya. 2018. “Interannual Modulation of Seasonal Glacial Velocity Variations in the Eastern Karakoram Detected by Alos-1/2 Data.” Journal of Glaciology 64 (245): 465–476. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2018.39.
  • van der Veen, C. J. 1998. “Fracture Mechanics Approach to Penetration of Bottom Crevasses on Glaciers.” Cold Regions Science and Technology 27 (3): 213–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-232X(98)00006-8.
  • van der Veen, C. J. 2007. “Fracture Propagation as Means of Rapidly Transferring Surface Melt-Water to the Base of Glaciers.” Geophysical Research Letters 34 (1): L01501. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028385.
  • Wang, X., X. Guo, C. Yang, Q. Liu, J. Wei, Y. Zhang, S. Liu, Y. Zhang, Z. Jiang, and Z. Tang. 2020. “Glacial Lake Inventory of High-Mountain Asia in 1990 and 2018 Derived from Landsat Images.” Earth System Science Data 12 (3): 2169–2182. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2169-2020.
  • Wang, X., S. Liu, H. Mo, X. Yao, Z. Jiang, and W. Guo. 2011. “Expansion of Glacial Lakes and its Implication for Climate Changes in the Chinese Himalaya.” Acta Geographica Sinica 66 (7): 895–904. https://doi.org/10.11821/xb201107003.
  • Wigmore, O., and B. Mark. 2017. “Monitoring Tropical Debris-Covered Glacier Dynamics from High-Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry, Cordillera Blanca, Peru.” The Cryosphere 11 (6): 2463–2480. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2463-2017.
  • Williams, R. S., D. K. Hall, O. Sigurðsson, and J. Y. L. Chien. 1997. “Comparison of Satellite-Derived with Ground-Based Measurements of the Fluctuations of the Margins of Vatnajökull, Iceland, 1973–92.” Annals of Glaciology 24: 72–80. https://doi.org/10.3189/S0260305500011964.
  • xdem_contributors. 2021. “Xdem (v0.0.2).” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4809698.
  • Ye, Q., S. Kang, F. Chen, and J. Wang. 2006. “Monitoring Glacier Variations on Geladandong Mountain, Central Tibetan Plateau, from 1969 to 2002 Using Remote-Sensing and gis Technologies.” Journal of Glaciology 52 (179): 537–545. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756506781828359.
  • Young, N. E., R. S. Anderson, S. M. Chignell, A. G. Vorster, R. Lawrence, and P. H. Evangelista. 2017. “A Survival Guide to Landsat Preprocessing.” Ecology 98 (4): 920–932. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1730.
  • Zhang, G., T. Bolch, S. Allen, A. Linsbauer, W. Chen, and W. Wang. 2019. “Glacial Lake Evolution and Glacier–Lake Interactions in the Poiqu River Basin, Central Himalaya, 1964–2017.” Journal of Glaciology 65 (251): 347–365. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.13.
  • Zhang, G., T. Bolch, T. Yao, D. R. Rounce, W. Chen, G. Veh, O. King, S. K. Allen, M. Wang, and W. Wang. 2023. “Underestimated Mass Loss from Lake-Terminating Glaciers in the Greater Himalaya.” Nature Geoscience 16 (4): 333–338. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01150-1.
  • Zhang, G., Y. Ran, W. Wan, W. Luo, W. Chen, F. Xu, and X. Li. 2021. “100 Years of Lake Evolution Over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau.” Earth System Science Data 13 (8): 3951–3966. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3951-2021.
  • Zhang, D., G. Zhou, W. Li, S. Zhang, X. Yao, and S. Wei. 2022. “A new Global Dataset of Mountain Glacier Centerlines and Lengths.” Earth System Science Data 14 (9): 3889–3913. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3889-2022.