Dear member of the Cryolist,
We opened a new Research Topic entitled "Observational Assessments of Glacier Mass Changes at Regional and Global Level" in Frontiers in Earth Science: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9957
With the present Research Topic, we call for studies that aim at providing new glacier mass-change estimates in time for consideration by IPCC AR6. In particular, we welcome studies, which assess regional or global glacier changes with a focus on:
• Geodetic methods from airborne campaigns (e.g. national surveys, IceBridge) and space-borne sensors (e.g. SRTM, TanDEM-X, WorldView, CryoSat-2);
• Satellite altimetry (e.g. ICESat);
• Satellite gravimetry (e.g. GRACE);
• Uncertainty assessments dealing with the challenges of the geodetic method such as sensor-specific issues, data void interpolation, glacier area changes, density conversion or sampling bias;
• Regional comparison of the results from different in-situ, air and space-borne methods; and
• Data-scarce regions such as the Canadian Arctic, Russian Arctic, Northern Asia, South America, Greenland periphery and Antarctic periphery.
Are you working on any of these topics and ready to publish your results in Frontiers for Earth Sciences?
Tell us by submitting your abstract by 31 July and your manuscript by 31 December 2019 (in line with the IPCC AR6 deadline)!
Note that abstract submission is encouraged but not mandatory.
Kind regards from the Topic Editor team
Michael Zemp, Matthias Braun, Fanny Brun, and Laura Thomson
