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DOI	10.5194/tc-15-927-2021
	Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s
	Kääb A.; Strozzi T.; Bolch T.; Caduff R.; Trefall H.; Stoffel M.; Kokarev A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	19940416
起始页码	927
结束页码	949
卷号	15 期号:2
英文摘要	pSpatio-temporal patterns related to the viscous creep in perennially frozen sediments of rock glaciers in cold mountains have rarely been studied outside the densely populated European Alps. This study investigates the spatial and temporal variability of rock glacier movement in the Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too mountain ranges, northern Tien Shan, a region with particularly large and fast rock glaciers. Over the study region of more than 3000 km span classCombining double low line inline-formula 2 /span, an inventory of slope movements was constructed using a large number of radar interferograms and high-resolution optical imagery. The inventory includes more than 900 landforms, of which around 550 were interpreted as rock glaciers. Out of the active rock glaciers inventoried, 45 are characterized by a rate of motion exceeding 100 cm/a. From these fast rock glaciers we selected six (Gorodetzky, Morenny, Archaly, Ordzhonikidze, Karakoram, and Kugalan Tash) and studied them in more detail using offset tracking between repeat aerial images and historical and modern high-resolution optical satellite data. Two of these rock glaciers showed a steady increase in decadal surface velocities from the 1950s onwards, with speeds being roughly 2 to 4 times higher in recent years compared to the 1950s and 1960s. Three rock glaciers showed similar accelerations over the last 1 to 2 decades but also phases of increased speeds in the 1960s. This development indicates a possible significant increase in current sediment and ice fluxes through rock glaciers and implies that their material transport in the region might gain geomorphodynamic importance relative to material transport by glaciers, assuming the latter decreases together with the regional glacier shrinkage. The study demonstrates how air and satellite image archives are exploited to construct one of the longest decennial times series of rock glacier speeds currently available. Our results are in line with findings from Europe about rock glacier speeds increasing with atmospheric warming and underline local variability of such an overall response. /p. © 2021 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). All rights reserved.
英文关键词	creep; geomorphology; image resolution; rock glacier; satellite data; slope; spatiotemporal analysis; Alps; Europe; Tien Shan
语种	英语
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202340
作者单位	Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, 0316, Norway; Gamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland; Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom; Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Institute of Geography of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kääb A.,Strozzi T.,Bolch T.,et al. Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s[J],2021,15(2).
APA	Kääb A..,Strozzi T..,Bolch T..,Caduff R..,Trefall H..,...&Kokarev A..(2021).Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s.Cryosphere,15(2).
MLA	Kääb A.,et al."Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s".Cryosphere 15.2(2021).