List of works - Tobias Bolch

A Comparison of Pixel- and Object-Based Glacier Classification With Optical Satellite Images

A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

article published in 2018

A consistent glacier inventory for the Karakoram and Pamir regions derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976–2009

scientific article published in 2010

A new satellite-derived glacier inventory for western Alaska

scholarly article by R. Le Bris et al published 2011 in Annals of Glaciology

A reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise: 2003 to 2009

scientific article

A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach

scientific article published in 2022

Analysis of current trends in climate parameters, river discharge and glaciers in the Aksu River basin (Central Asia)

article

Attribution of streamflow trends in snow and glacier melt-dominated catchments of the Tarim River, Central Asia

article

Brief communication "Historical glacier length changes in West Greenland"

scholarly article by P. W. Leclercq et al published 15 November 2012 in The Cryosphere

Brief communication: Glaciers in the Hunza catchment (Karakoram) have been nearly in balance since the 1970s

scholarly article

Brief communication: Supraglacial debris-cover changes in the Caucasus Mountains

preprint

Characteristics and Origin of Rock Glaciers in Northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)

Climate change and glacier retreat in northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan) using remote sensing data

scientific article

Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

article

Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region

scientific article published in 2021

Declining glaciers endanger sustainable development of the oases along the Aksu-Tarim River (Central Asia)

scientific article published in 2021

Early 21st century snow cover state over the western river basins of the Indus River system

Earth Observation to Investigate Occurrence, Characteristics and Changes of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Rock Glaciers in the Poiqu River Basin (Central Himalaya)

scientific article published in 2022

Error sources and guidelines for quality assessment of glacier area, elevation change, and velocity products derived from satellite data in the Glaciers_cci project

scientific article published in 2017

Estimating the volume of glaciers in the Himalayan–Karakoram region using different methods

article

Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

article

Five decades of Abramov glacier dynamics reconstructed with multi-sensor optical remote sensing

scientific article published on 24 July 2024

Four decades of glacier variations at Muztag Ata (Eastern Pamir): a multi-sensor study including Hexagon KH-9 and Pléiades data

Four decades of glacier variations at Muztagh Ata (eastern Pamir): a multi-sensor study including Hexagon KH-9 and Pléiades data

article by N. Holzer et al published 10 November 2015 in The Cryosphere

Future Climate Change and Its Impact on Runoff Generation from the Debris-Covered Inylchek Glaciers, Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Generation and evaluation of multitemporal digital terrain models of the Mt. Everest area from different optical sensors

article

Geomorphometry of Cerro Sillajhuay (Andes, Chile/Bolivia): Comparison of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from ASTER Remote Sensing Data and Contour Maps

article

Glacial lakes exacerbate Himalayan glacier mass loss

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Glacier Mapping and Monitoring Using Multispectral Data

Glacier Mass Loss during the 1960s and 1970s in the Ak-Shirak Range (Kyrgyzstan) from Multiple Stereoscopic Corona and Hexagon Imagery

Glacier Water Resources on the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

article

Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile

scientific article published in 2022

Glacier changes in the Garhwal Himalaya, India, from 1968 to 2006 based on remote sensing

article by Rakesh Bhambri et al published 2011 in Journal of Glaciology

Glacier fluctuations between 1975 and 2008 in the Greater Himalaya Range of Zanskar, southern Ladakh

Glacier mapping: a review with special reference to the Indian Himalayas

article

Glacier mass changes in Rongbuk catchment on Mt. Qomolangma from 1974 to 2006 based on topographic maps and ALOS PRISM data

article published in 2015

Glacier mass changes on the Tibetan Plateau 2003–2009 derived from ICESat laser altimetry measurements

Glaciological and climatological drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass loss in the Tanggula Shan (Central-Eastern Tibetan Plateau), since the 1960s

scientific article published in 2023

Heterogeneity in glacier response in the upper Shyok valley, northeast Karakoram

scientific article published in 2013

Heterogeneous glacier thinning patterns over the last 40 years in Langtang Himal, Nepal

scholarly article by Silvan Ragettli et al published 14 September 2016 in The Cryosphere

Heterogeneous mass loss of glaciers in the Aksu-Tarim Catchment (Central Tien Shan) revealed by 1976 KH-9 Hexagon and 2009 SPOT-5 stereo imagery

scientific article published in 2013

High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s

scientific article published in 2021

Hydrology: Asian glaciers are a reliable water source

scientific article published in May 2017

Ice Volume and Subglacial Topography for Western Canadian Glaciers from Mass Balance Fields, Thinning Rates, and a Bed Stress Model

article

Identification of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the Northern Tian Shan

article

Identification of glacier motion and potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Mt. Everest region/Nepal using spaceborne imagery

article

Identification of potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the northern Tien Shan

article

Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide

scientific article published in 2022

Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s

scientific article published on 16 February 2023

Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s

Knowledge Priorities on Climate Change and Water in the Upper Indus Basin: A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences

scientific article published in April 2022

Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

article

Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 1985–2005

article

Mapping of debris-covered glaciers in the Garhwal Himalayas using ASTER DEMs and thermal data

Mass changes of Southern and Northern Inylchek Glacier, Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan, during ∼1975 and 2007 derived from remote sensing data

scientific article

Mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps 2003-2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data

article

Mass-balance changes of the debris-covered glaciers in the Langtang Himal, Nepal, from 1974 to 1999

scholarly article by Francesca Pellicciotti et al published 2015 in Journal of Glaciology

More data and increased automation leads to better quality for GLIMS and RGI glacier data sets

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

More dynamic than expected: an updated survey of surging glaciers in the Pamir

scientific article published in 2020

Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from modelling constrained with repeated snow line observations

scholarly article

Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from transient snowline observations

article by Martina Barandun et al published 27 November 2017 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Multi-decadal mass loss of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from stereo imagery

scholarly article by Tobias Bolch et al published 20 April 2011 in The Cryosphere

Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data

scientific article published on 16 July 2024

Occurrence, evolution and ice content of ice-debris complexes in the Ak-Shiirak, Central Tien Shan revealed by geophysical and remotely-sensed investigations

scientific article published in 2018

On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

scientific article

Overall recession and mass budget of Gangotri Glacier, Garhwal Himalayas, from 1965 to 2015 using remote sensing data

scholarly article

Region-wide glacier mass budgets and area changes for the Central Tien Shan between ~1975 and 1999 using Hexagon KH-9 imagery

scientific article

Remote Sensing of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera, Western Canada

article

Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

article

Satellite-based glacier monitoring in the ESA project Glaciers_cci

Snow Cover Distribution in the Aksu Catchment (Central Tien Shan) 1986–2013 Based on AVHRR and MODIS Data

article published in 2015

Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years

Supplementary material to "Brief communication: Supraglacial debris-cover changes in the Caucasus Mountains"

scientific article published on 9 January 2019

Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014

scientific article

The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

article by W. Tad Pfeffer et al published 6 May 2014 in Journal of Glaciology

The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland

scholarly article by P. Rastner et al published 10 December 2012 in The Cryosphere

The future sea-level rise contribution of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps

The glaciers climate change initiative: Methods for creating glacier area, elevation change and velocity products ⬇️

scholarly article by Frank Paul et al published June 2015 in Remote Sensing of Environment

The imbalance of the Asian water tower

The influence of debris cover and glacial lakes on the recession of glaciers in Sikkim Himalaya, India

article

The presence and influence of glacier surging around the Geladandong ice caps, North East Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2021

The role of debris cover in the evolution of Zmuttgletscher, Switzerland, since the end of the Little Ice Age

article

The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

scientific article

The status and role of the alpine cryosphere in Central Asia

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Tracing glacier changes since the 1960s on the south slope of Mt. Everest (central Southern Himalaya) using optical satellite imagery

article published in 2014

List of works by Tobias Bolch

A Comparison of Pixel- and Object-Based Glacier Classification With Optical Satellite Images

A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

A consistent glacier inventory for the Karakoram and Pamir regions derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges

A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976–2009

A new satellite-derived glacier inventory for western Alaska

A reconciled estimate of glacier contributions to sea level rise: 2003 to 2009

A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach

Analysis of current trends in climate parameters, river discharge and glaciers in the Aksu River basin (Central Asia)

Attribution of streamflow trends in snow and glacier melt-dominated catchments of the Tarim River, Central Asia

Brief communication "Historical glacier length changes in West Greenland"

Brief communication: Glaciers in the Hunza catchment (Karakoram) have been nearly in balance since the 1970s

Brief communication: Supraglacial debris-cover changes in the Caucasus Mountains

Characteristics and Origin of Rock Glaciers in Northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)

Climate change and glacier retreat in northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan) using remote sensing data

Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region

Declining glaciers endanger sustainable development of the oases along the Aksu-Tarim River (Central Asia)

Early 21st century snow cover state over the western river basins of the Indus River system

Earth Observation to Investigate Occurrence, Characteristics and Changes of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Rock Glaciers in the Poiqu River Basin (Central Himalaya)

Error sources and guidelines for quality assessment of glacier area, elevation change, and velocity products derived from satellite data in the Glaciers_cci project

Estimating the volume of glaciers in the Himalayan–Karakoram region using different methods

Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

Five decades of Abramov glacier dynamics reconstructed with multi-sensor optical remote sensing

Four decades of glacier variations at Muztag Ata (Eastern Pamir): a multi-sensor study including Hexagon KH-9 and Pléiades data

Four decades of glacier variations at Muztagh Ata (eastern Pamir): a multi-sensor study including Hexagon KH-9 and Pléiades data

Future Climate Change and Its Impact on Runoff Generation from the Debris-Covered Inylchek Glaciers, Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Generation and evaluation of multitemporal digital terrain models of the Mt. Everest area from different optical sensors

Geomorphometry of Cerro Sillajhuay (Andes, Chile/Bolivia): Comparison of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from ASTER Remote Sensing Data and Contour Maps

Glacial lakes exacerbate Himalayan glacier mass loss

Glacier Mapping and Monitoring Using Multispectral Data

Glacier Mass Loss during the 1960s and 1970s in the Ak-Shirak Range (Kyrgyzstan) from Multiple Stereoscopic Corona and Hexagon Imagery

Glacier Water Resources on the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile

Glacier changes in the Garhwal Himalaya, India, from 1968 to 2006 based on remote sensing

Glacier fluctuations between 1975 and 2008 in the Greater Himalaya Range of Zanskar, southern Ladakh

Glacier mapping: a review with special reference to the Indian Himalayas

Glacier mass changes in Rongbuk catchment on Mt. Qomolangma from 1974 to 2006 based on topographic maps and ALOS PRISM data

Glacier mass changes on the Tibetan Plateau 2003–2009 derived from ICESat laser altimetry measurements

Glaciological and climatological drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass loss in the Tanggula Shan (Central-Eastern Tibetan Plateau), since the 1960s

Heterogeneity in glacier response in the upper Shyok valley, northeast Karakoram

Heterogeneous glacier thinning patterns over the last 40 years in Langtang Himal, Nepal

Heterogeneous mass loss of glaciers in the Aksu-Tarim Catchment (Central Tien Shan) revealed by 1976 KH-9 Hexagon and 2009 SPOT-5 stereo imagery

High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s

Hydrology: Asian glaciers are a reliable water source

Ice Volume and Subglacial Topography for Western Canadian Glaciers from Mass Balance Fields, Thinning Rates, and a Bed Stress Model

Identification of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the Northern Tian Shan

Identification of glacier motion and potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Mt. Everest region/Nepal using spaceborne imagery

Identification of potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the northern Tien Shan

Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide

Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s

Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s

Knowledge Priorities on Climate Change and Water in the Upper Indus Basin: A Horizon Scanning Exercise to Identify the Top 100 Research Questions in Social and Natural Sciences

Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 1985–2005

Mapping of debris-covered glaciers in the Garhwal Himalayas using ASTER DEMs and thermal data

Mass changes of Southern and Northern Inylchek Glacier, Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan, during ∼1975 and 2007 derived from remote sensing data

Mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps 2003-2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data

Mass-balance changes of the debris-covered glaciers in the Langtang Himal, Nepal, from 1974 to 1999

More data and increased automation leads to better quality for GLIMS and RGI glacier data sets

More dynamic than expected: an updated survey of surging glaciers in the Pamir

Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from modelling constrained with repeated snow line observations

Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from transient snowline observations

Multi-decadal mass loss of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from stereo imagery

Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data

Occurrence, evolution and ice content of ice-debris complexes in the Ak-Shiirak, Central Tien Shan revealed by geophysical and remotely-sensed investigations

On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

Overall recession and mass budget of Gangotri Glacier, Garhwal Himalayas, from 1965 to 2015 using remote sensing data

Region-wide glacier mass budgets and area changes for the Central Tien Shan between ~1975 and 1999 using Hexagon KH-9 imagery

Remote Sensing of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera, Western Canada

Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

Satellite-based glacier monitoring in the ESA project Glaciers_cci

Snow Cover Distribution in the Aksu Catchment (Central Tien Shan) 1986–2013 Based on AVHRR and MODIS Data

Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years

Supplementary material to "Brief communication: Supraglacial debris-cover changes in the Caucasus Mountains"

Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014

The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland

The future sea-level rise contribution of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps