Toward improved comparability of glacier mass-balance estimates: Challenges and recommendations
Zemp, Michael
Observing glacier mass changes is essential for understanding and projecting the impacts of climate change on sea-level rise, water resources and natural hazards, as well as providing data for developing, calibrating and validating glacier evolution models. The principal methods used to measure glacier mass changes — glaciological, geodetic (surface elevation differencing) and gravimetric — differ in the spatial and temporal scales at which they are most effectively applied. Here, we review thes