Philipp Rastner

TL;DR: The Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) as discussed by the authors is a collection of digital outlines of glaciers, excluding the ice sheets, developed to meet the needs of the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for estimates of past and future mass balance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the results of a single and multiple digitization by different or the same analysts on very high-1 m and medium-resolution (30 m) remote-sensing data, against each other and to glacier outlines derived from automated classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a systematic analysis of the contributing factors leading to the Kedarnath disaster, both in terms of hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a complete inventory of Greenland's glaciers using semi-automated mapping techniques and a digital elevation model (DEM) was used to derive drainage divides from watershed analysis and topographic attributes for each glacier entity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mass changes of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps were determined using space-borne laser altimetry data, and corrections for firn compaction and density that are based on climatic conditions were applied for the conversion from volume to mass changes.