Concept information
Preferred term
REMOSUR
Definition
- Short Title: REMOSUR Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=266 Surging glaciers are widely distributed in high mountain regions of the World and often are at the bottom of many natural catastrophic phenomenon (mudflows, outbursts of dammed lakes, ice avalanches etc). That's why the revealing of such glaciers and observation on their regime are of great scientific and practical importance. At present as a result of field investigations, air photos and space images the regularities of fluctuations of many surging glaciers of the Pamirs (Oktyabrskiy, Gando, Bivachniy, Sugran and others) are investigated in detail. The Inventory of Surging Glaciers of the Pamirs was compiled. The experience of monitoring of these glaciers may be distributed at the glaciers of polar regions. That's why it is proposed to fulfil remote sensing investigations of surging glaciers of Alaska, Svalbard and Pamirs on the base of space images. In Alaska investigations of the regime of some surging glaciers (Muldrow, Variegated, Steele and others) were carried out. Usherbreen, Kongsvegen, Duckwitzbreen surging glaciers are the most investigated in the Svalbard. The results of investigations of dynamically unstable glaciers in these regions will give an opportunity to define more precisely the elements of remote sensing monitoring of unstable glaciers in polar and continental regions, to clear up likeness and differences in their conditions. (en)
Broader concept
- P - R (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/ddb370b3-814e-4d60-882f-3b8a6d5f19c0
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