Estimating the longevity of glaciers in the Tian Shan in Xinjiang, China through remote sensing observations of glacier area change
Jukes Liu1,2, Daniel E Lawson3, Robert L Hawley4, Brian Tracy5, Jonathan W Chipman3, Xun Shi3 and Yaning Chen6, (1)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China