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Bulletin of Glaciological Research 18 (2001) 51-54
©Japanese Society of Snow and Ice
Shrinkage of Glacier AX010 in Shorong region, Nepal Himalayas in the 1990s
Koji FUJITA1,
Tsutomu KADOTA1*,
Birbal RANA2, Rijan
Bhakta KAYASTHA2**
and Yutaka AGETA1
1 Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric
Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 Japan
2 Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Ministry of Science
and Technology, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, P.O. Box 406,
Kathmandu, Nepal
(*Present address: Frontier Observational Research System for
Global Change, Sumitomo Hamamatsucho Bldg. 4F, 1-18-16 Hamamatsu-cho,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0013 Japan)
(**Present address: Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric
Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601 Japan)
Abstract
Areal extent, terminus position, surface flow speed and mass balance were observed every year since 1995 at Glacier AX010 in Shorong region, Nepal Himalayas after the first observation in 1978. Areal extent and terminus position showed that the glacier has shrunk since 1978, and that the shrinkage rate has accelerated in the 1990s. The surface flow speed suggests the thinning of glacier thickness since 1978. Mass balance and air temperature data also support the shrinkage tendency that seemed to accelerate in the 1990s.
