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. 2011 Sep 6;108(36):14709-10.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1111663108. Epub 2011 Aug 24.

Himalayan glaciers: the big picture is a montage

Jeffrey S Kargel  1 , J Graham Cogley, Gregory J Leonard, Umesh Haritashya, Alton Byers
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Himalayan glaciers: the big picture is a montage

Jeffrey S Kargel et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Gangotri Glacier retreat history. (A) Digitized Gangotri Glacier and tributaries superposed onto an Advanced Spaceborne Thermal and reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image (October 9, 2006). (B) Retreat history of the glacier tongue superposed on the same scene. Outlines for 1780–1971 are from the work by Vohra (4), the outline for 1990 is from our analysis of a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image (November 15, 1990), and the outlines for 2006 (October 9) and 2010 (November 29) are from ASTER image analysis. (C) Linear and areal retreat history (green and red curves, respectively) of the same data used for B. The linear terminus retreat record provided by Raina (2) has uncertain derivation, but apparently it is from ground observations (blue curve).
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