Changes in the extent of a glacier based on topographic maps and satellite images - possibilities and limitations on the example of the de Ferpecle glacier

Mountain precipitation is an important force driving the cycles of the cryosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere in arid Central Asia. This driving force has broad coherence in spatiotemporal variation, with periodic cycles and decadal shifts caused by the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. In the future, the increase of precipitation will delay the impact of the sharp rise in temperature on the melting of glacier mass balance.