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GLACIERS MASS BALANCE INTERCOMPARISON EXERCISE (GLAMBIE)

UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH (CH)

Summary

GlaMBIE project builds on nascent efforts within the IACS working group on Regional Assessments of Glacier Mass Change (RAGMAC,  https://cryosphericsciences.org/activities/wg-ragmac/) to setup and coordinate an intercomparison exercise of regional glacier mass changes from glaciological in-situ measurements and various remote sensing sources, including geodetic DEM differencing, altimetry, and gravimetry. Under the guidance of Scientific Advisory Committee (staffed with the RAGMAC co-chairs), an assessment framework, algorithm, and environment will be developed to compile and analyse the regional glacier mass-change results from the active research groups to come up with new consensus estimates of regional and global glacier mass changes and related uncertainties.


Scientific Papers

  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

    Zheng W.; Zekollari H.; Wouters B.; Velicogna I.; Treichler D.; Sutterley T.; Sommer C.; Shen X.; Seehaus T.; Schuster L.; Sasgen I.; Richter A.; Plummer S.; Piermattei L.; Pfeffer J.; Pálsson F.; Nilsson J.; Moholdt G.; Miles E.; Menounos B.; McNabb R.; Mattea E.; Maussion F.; Krieger L.; Kneib M.; King O.; Khan S.A.; Ke C.-Q.; Liang C.-C.A.; Jóhannesson T.; Huss M.; Hugonnet R.; Hassan J.; Harig C.; Gardner A.; Floricioiu D.; Florentine C.; Farinotti D.; Eckert N.; Colgan W.; Cicero E.; Brun F.; Braun M.H.; Box J.; Bolch T.; Boehm Vock L.F.; Blazquez A.; Bhattacharya A.; Berthier E.; Andreassen L.M.; Abdullahi S.; Geruo A.; Dubber S.; Gourmelen N.; Nussbaumer S.U.; Dussaillant I.; Jakob L.; Zemp M.

    Nature (2025)


  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

    Zheng W.; Zekollari H.; Wouters B.; Velicogna I.; Treichler D.; Sutterley T.; Sommer C.; Shen X.; Seehaus T.; Schuster L.; Sasgen I.; Richter A.; Plummer S.; Piermattei L.; Pfeffer J.; Pálsson F.; Nilsson J.; Moholdt G.; Miles E.; Menounos B.; McNabb R.; Mattea E.; Maussion F.; Krieger L.; Kneib M.; King O.; Khan S.A.; Ke C.-Q.; Liang C.-C.A.; Jóhannesson T.; Huss M.; Hugonnet R.; Hassan J.; Harig C.; Gardner A.; Floricioiu D.; Florentine C.; Farinotti D.; Eckert N.; Colgan W.; Cicero E.; Brun F.; Braun M.H.; Box J.; Bolch T.; Boehm Vock L.F.; Blazquez A.; Bhattacharya A.; Berthier E.; Andreassen L.M.; Abdullahi S.; Geruo A.; Dubber S.; Gourmelen N.; Nussbaumer S.U.; Dussaillant I.; Jakob L.; Zemp M.

    Nature (2025)


  • Temporal downscaling of glaciological mass balance using seasonal observations

    Zemp M.; Welty E.

    Journal of Glaciology (2023)


  • Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review

    Etienne Berthier, Dana Floriciou, Alex S Gardner, Noel Gourmelen, Livia Jakob, Frank Paul, Désirée Treichler, Bert Wouters,Joaquín M C Belart, Amaury Dehecq

    Reports on Progress in Physics (2023)


Information

Website
http://glambie.org
Domain
Science
Prime contractor
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH (CH)