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Appendix C: Glacier Measurement Methods
Appendix C: Glacier Measurement Methods
Pages 127-130
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These chal- HYDROLOGICAL MASS BALANCE lenges include logistical constraints in remote areas, MEASUREMENT inclement weather conditions including cold temperatures and high winds, crevasses, avalanches and icefalls, The hydrological mass balance can also be used and rockfall from surrounding terrain. The rate of data to estimate the glacial mass balance.
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Nepal by the recent International Centre for Integrated The spatial resolution of a remote sensing image is Mountain Development (ICIMOD) field class on gla- critical to obtaining glacial properties in mountainous cial mass balance measurements.
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the high brightness values of snow and ice in the visible Debris cover is one of the greatest challenges in wavelengths to distinguish them from darker rock, soil, remote sensing of glaciers. In the visible and nearor vegetation (Racoviteanu et al., 2008)
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