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Glacier Melt

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Glacier melt refers to the process of ice loss from glaciers due to increased temperatures, leading to the transformation of solid ice into liquid water. This phenomenon is a significant indicator of climate change, impacting sea levels, freshwater resources, and ecosystems.
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Glacier melt refers to the process of ice loss from glaciers due to increased temperatures, leading to the transformation of solid ice into liquid water. This phenomenon is a significant indicator of climate change, impacting sea levels, freshwater resources, and ecosystems.

Key research themes

1. How do glacier monitoring datasets characterize the global patterns and temporal evolution of glacier melt and retreat?

This research area focuses on synthesizing long-term, spatially explicit observational datasets to understand global glacier retreat trends and their implications for sea level rise and regional hydrology. It matters because glaciers are key indicators of climate change, directly affecting water resources, global sea levels, and natural hazards. The research leverages coordinated international glacier monitoring programs and integrates various measurement approaches (ground, airborne, satellite), with emphasis on length, area, volume, and mass balance changes over centennial to decadal scale.

Key finding: By analyzing comprehensive datasets from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), this study confirmed a persistent global pattern of glacier retreat since the Little Ice Age, with accelerated mass loss observed... Read more
Key finding: This paper compiled a spatially explicit dataset of glacier front positions globally since the Little Ice Age maxima, presenting 728 glacier outlines for 94 glaciers worldwide. It revealed consistent global patterns of... Read more
Key finding: The bulletin consolidates standardized glacier fluctuation data (length, area, volume, mass balance) from over 673 glaciers monitored across 29 countries, reporting mass losses exceeding 0.7 m water equivalent per year during... Read more
Key finding: Using Landsat satellite imagery, this study quantified an 18% decline in glacierized area across the Columbia Icefield over 1985 to 2018, equivalent to an 18% surface area loss representing 42 km2. The study provided... Read more
Key finding: Combining geodetic methods and mass balance measurements, the paper demonstrated a statistically significant increase in volume and area loss of Austre Lovénbreen over 65 years, linked to approximately 250 m rise in the 0°C... Read more

2. How do debris cover and glacier surface characteristics affect regional glacier melt rates and mass balance?

This theme investigates the modulating effect of supraglacial debris on melt processes and mass balance in Himalayan glaciers. Given that debris-covered glaciers represent a significant portion of glacierized area in mountainous regions, understanding their unique melt dynamics—involving insulating debris layers, ice cliffs, spatial variability, and englacial melt—is critical for regional water resource prediction and interpreting heterogeneous glacier responses under climate warming.

Key finding: By integrating ground-based ice thickness and elevation change measurements with UAV and photogrammetric DEMs, this study quantified that debris layers thicker than a few centimeters reduce glacier melt by insulating the ice... Read more

3. What are the spatial-temporal controls and physical processes driving regional glacier retreat and dynamics, including ice detachment and submarine melting?

This theme explores the physical and atmospheric-oceanic forcings governing glacier retreat patterns, including rapid calving and detachment events, oceanographic influences, meteorological phenomena such as foehn winds, and the role of bed topography and basal conditions. Understanding these mechanisms is vital to improving predictions of glacier dynamics under climate change and their contribution to sea level rise, especially for marine-terminating and Arctic glaciers.

Key finding: Using improved cosmogenic-nuclide dating of moraines, this study revealed broadly synchronous global glacier retreat between approximately 19-11 ka BP closely coincident with rising greenhouse gas concentrations. Regional... Read more
Key finding: Field and remote sensing data from Flat Creek glacier documented two catastrophic glacier detachments triggered by abnormally high meltwater input, inefficient subglacial drainage beneath cold ice tongues, and increased... Read more
Key finding: This study demonstrated that accelerated retreat of over 94% of marine-terminating glaciers in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago since the 1950s correlated strongly with atmospheric temperature increase rather than subsurface... Read more
Key finding: Detailed ice radar, satellite, and in situ observations revealed that bed geometry proximal to Bowdoin Glacier’s grounded calving front critically governs its rapid retreat and thinning phases beginning in 2008. Observed... Read more
Key finding: Four decades of reanalysis data analysis identified frequent foehn wind episodes from June to October at Pine Island Glacier with episodic durations of 5-9 hours. These winds significantly increase surface sublimation—by... Read more

All papers in Glacier Melt

There is a growing need to improve our understanding of catchment flow generation processes, especially in alpine watersheds, where the aquatic biodiversity is dependent upon the types of water sources and their seasonal dynamics. In... more
Quantification of the contribution of the hydrologic components (snow, ice and rain) to river discharge in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is important for decision-making in water sensitive sectors, and for water resources... more
Politeknik ATMI Surakarta menerapkan protokol kesehatan untuk masuk ke area kampus, yang terdiri dari pemeriksaan suhu tubuh dan penyemprotan disinfektan. Protokol kesehatan saat ini didukung oleh 1 pemeriksa suhu otomatis dan 4 bilik... more
A scale-dependent model to represent changing aerodynamic roughness of ablating glacier ice based on repeat topographic surveys.
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Streamflow simulation is often challenging in mountainous watersheds because of irregular topography and complex hydrological processes. Rates of change in precipitation and temperature with respect to elevation often limit the ability to... more
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Streamflow simulation is often challenging in mountainous watersheds because of irregular topography and complex hydrological processes. Rates of change in precipitation and temperature with respect to elevation often limit the ability to... more
Sistem bongkar muat pada docking kapal tanker adalah tempat pemuatan, pembangunan, pembongkaran, atau perbaikan kapal untuk proses kegiatan memindahkan muatan dari tangki kapal ke tangki timbun di suatu terminal ataupun sebaliknya dengan... more
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Sistem bongkar muat pada docking kapal tanker adalah tempat pemuatan, pembangunan, pembongkaran, atau perbaikan kapal untuk proses kegiatan memindahkan muatan dari tangki kapal ke tangki timbun di suatu terminal ataupun sebaliknya dengan... more
Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Persero) branch of Tanjung Emas Semarang is a BUMN provider of port services. One of the services provided is the operation of ships at the port, such as loading and unloading activities. One of the loading and... more
Large-scale logistics companies deliver products using sea transportation effectively. Company X as one of the pioneer port containers service still has limitations both from minimal stacking capacity and limited equipment, 1 HMC unit and... more
Pertumbuhan perekonomian Pelabuhan Umum Anyer Banten yang meliputi Jakarta, Tangerang, Serang, Cilegon dan juga daerah Jawa Barat menunjukkan yang sangat pesat. Demikian juga dengan jumlah penduduknya yang cenderung mengalami peningkatan.... more
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Distribusi maritim merupakan salah satu sektor yang vital bagi industri minyak dan gas di Indonesia. Tingginya aktivitas tersebut sering menimbulkan biaya non added value bagi perusahaan minyak dan gas, salah satunya adalah demurrage... more
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PT. XYZ merupakan perusahaan yang bergerak dalam bidang jasa pelabuhan. Salah satu kegiatannya adalah bongkar muat dan pengiriman cargo coal dari PT. XYZ ke PT. ABC. Waktu total yang disepakati untuk menyelesaikan proses bongkar muat dan... more
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Indonesia sebagai negara kepulauan membutuhkan sistem logistik yang terintegrasi, efektif dan efisien guna meningkatkan daya saing, dan menjamin keberadaan komoditi strategis dari bahan kebutuhan pokok masyarakat secara merata dan... more
Indonesia as one of the biggest archipelagic countries, sees the potential for the need for ports as an inter-island logistics sector. Ports in Indonesia are managed by PT. Indonesian Port, one of the branches of PT. Pelindo is PT. X... more
On June 17, 2019, a photograph of a dogsled team driving headlong into a lake of bright blue water in Greenland went viral.1 Headlines announced an unprecedented “melt event”: the Greenland Ice Sheet had lost two billion tons of ice that... more
In recent decades, climate change has impacted severely the mass balance of many of the glaciers in the Himalaya and the wider Hindu Kush-Himalaya region (HKH), and the status of the seasonal snow pack. Both these elements contribute... more
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