---
_id: '12573'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Supraglacial debris strongly modulates glacier melt rates and can be decisive
    for ice dynamics and mountain hydrology. It is ubiquitous in High-Mountain Asia,
    yet because its thickness and supply rate from local topography are poorly known,
    our ability to forecast regional glacier change and streamflow is limited. Here
    we combined remote sensing and numerical modelling to resolve supraglacial debris
    thickness by altitude for 4689 glaciers in High-Mountain Asia, and debris-supply
    rate to 4141 of those glaciers. Our results reveal extensively thin supraglacial
    debris and high spatial variability in both debris thickness and supply rate.
    Debris-supply rate increases with the temperature and slope of debris-supply slopes
    regionally, and debris thickness increases as ice flow decreases locally. Our
    centennial-scale estimates of debris-supply rate are typically an order of magnitude
    or more lower than millennial-scale estimates of headwall-erosion rate from Beryllium-10
    cosmogenic nuclides, potentially reflecting episodic debris supply to the region’s
    glaciers.
article_number: '269'
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: McCarthy, Michael
  last_name: McCarthy
- first_name: Evan
  full_name: Miles, Evan
  last_name: Miles
- first_name: Marin
  full_name: Kneib, Marin
  last_name: Kneib
- first_name: Pascal
  full_name: Buri, Pascal
  last_name: Buri
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Fugger, Stefan
  last_name: Fugger
- first_name: Francesca
  full_name: Pellicciotti, Francesca
  id: b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70
  last_name: Pellicciotti
citation:
  ama: McCarthy M, Miles E, Kneib M, Buri P, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F. Supraglacial
    debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. <i>Communications Earth
    &#38; Environment</i>. 2022;3. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2">10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2</a>
  apa: McCarthy, M., Miles, E., Kneib, M., Buri, P., Fugger, S., &#38; Pellicciotti,
    F. (2022). Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia.
    <i>Communications Earth &#38; Environment</i>. Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2</a>
  chicago: McCarthy, Michael, Evan Miles, Marin Kneib, Pascal Buri, Stefan Fugger,
    and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Supply Rate in
    High-Mountain Asia.” <i>Communications Earth &#38; Environment</i>. Springer Nature,
    2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2</a>.
  ieee: M. McCarthy, E. Miles, M. Kneib, P. Buri, S. Fugger, and F. Pellicciotti,
    “Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia,” <i>Communications
    Earth &#38; Environment</i>, vol. 3. Springer Nature, 2022.
  ista: McCarthy M, Miles E, Kneib M, Buri P, Fugger S, Pellicciotti F. 2022. Supraglacial
    debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth &#38;
    Environment. 3, 269.
  mla: McCarthy, Michael, et al. “Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Supply Rate in
    High-Mountain Asia.” <i>Communications Earth &#38; Environment</i>, vol. 3, 269,
    Springer Nature, 2022, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2">10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2</a>.
  short: M. McCarthy, E. Miles, M. Kneib, P. Buri, S. Fugger, F. Pellicciotti, Communications
    Earth &#38; Environment 3 (2022).
date_created: 2023-02-20T08:09:27Z
date_published: 2022-11-05T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-28T14:02:22Z
day: '05'
doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         3'
keyword:
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- General Environmental Science
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2
month: '11'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
publication: Communications Earth & Environment
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2662-4435
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia
type: journal_article
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volume: 3
year: '2022'
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