Khumbu Glacier Field Campaign
Calendar IconMay 2016
Earth IconKhumbu, Nepal
Earth IconC. Scott Watson, Owen King and Darren Jones with support from Mahesh Magar and Laxmi Kumar Rai
This was the second of a series of three campaigns studying supraglacial pond development and melt at ice cliffs on the debris covered Khumbu Glacier. An ascent of Lobuche East (6090m) gave them a good vantage point over the Khumbu Glacier. They completed 11 photographic surveys of ice cliffs which will be processed to generate 3D point clouds, from which melt data can be calculated. They surveyed 19 supraglacial ponds to derive area/volume relationships, enabling the estimation of surface water storage from satellite images.
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