Remote sensing estimates of glacier mass
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Etienne Berthier; Yves Arnaud; Rajesh Kumar; Sarfaraz Ahmad; Patrick Wagnon; Pie
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Although they correspond to an important fraction of the total area of mountain glaciers (33,000 km 2 out of 546,000 km 2 ), Himalayan glaciers and their mass balance are poorly sampled. For example, between 1977 and 1999, the average area surveyed each year on the field was 6.8 km 2 only. No direct