| DOI: | 10.5194/tc-10-2129-2016
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-84988504018
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| 论文题名: | ICESat laser altimetry over small mountain glaciers |
| 作者: | Treichler D; , Kääb A
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| 刊名: | Cryosphere
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| ISSN: | 19940416
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| 出版年: | 2016
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| 卷: | 10, 期:5 | | 起始页码: | 2129
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| 结束页码: | 2146
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | digital elevation model
; elevation
; glacier dynamics
; glacier mass balance
; GLAS
; ICESat
; laser method
; lidar
; mountain region
; satellite altimetry
; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
; spatiotemporal analysis
; Norway
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| 英文摘要: | Using sparsely glaciated southern Norway as a case study, we assess the potential and limitations of ICESat laser altimetry for analysing regional glacier elevation change in rough mountain terrain. Differences between ICESat GLAS elevations and reference elevation data are plotted over time to derive a glacier surface elevation trend for the ICESat acquisition period 2003-2008. We find spatially varying biases between ICESat and three tested digital elevation models (DEMs): the Norwegian national DEM, SRTM DEM, and a high-resolution lidar DEM. For regional glacier elevation change, the spatial inconsistency of reference DEMs - a result of spatio-temporal merging - has the potential to significantly affect or dilute trends. Elevation uncertainties of all three tested DEMs exceed ICESat elevation uncertainty by an order of magnitude, and are thus limiting the accuracy of the method, rather than ICESat uncertainty. ICESat matches glacier size distribution of the study area well and measures small ice patches not commonly monitored in situ. The sample is large enough for spatial and thematic subsetting. Vertical offsets to ICESat elevations vary for different glaciers in southern Norway due to spatially inconsistent reference DEM age. We introduce a per-glacier correction that removes these spatially varying offsets, and considerably increases trend significance. Only after application of this correction do individual campaigns fit observed in situ glacier mass balance. Our correction also has the potential to improve glacier trend significance for other causes of spatially varying vertical offsets, for instance due to radar penetration into ice and snow for the SRTM DEM or as a consequence of mosaicking and merging that is common for national or global DEMs. After correction of reference elevation bias, we find that ICESat provides a robust and realistic estimate of a moderately negative glacier mass balance of around -0.36 ± 0.07 m ice per year. This regional estimate agrees well with the heterogeneous but overall negative in situ glacier mass balance observed in the area. © Author(s) 2016. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/75076
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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作者单位: | Institute of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1047, Oslo, Norway
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Treichler D,, Kääb A. ICESat laser altimetry over small mountain glaciers[J]. Cryosphere,2016-01-01,10(5)
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