Akiko Sakai

Best Publications

• Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

  J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  572
  Citations

• Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

  Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  531
  Citations

• Partitioning the uncertainty of ensemble projections of global glacier mass change

  Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Brian Anderson;Andrew Bliss

  269
  Citations

• The GAMDAM glacier inventory: a quality-controlled inventory of Asian glaciers

  T. Nuimura;T. Nuimura;A. Sakai;K. Taniguchi;H. Nagai;H. Nagai

  257
  Citations

• Performance of ASTER and SRTM DEMs, and their potential for assessing glacial lakes in the Lunana region, Bhutan Himalaya

  Koji Fujita;Ryohei Suzuki;Takayuki Nuimura;Akiko Sakai

  242
  Citations

• Role of supraglacial ponds in the ablation process of a debris-covered glacier in the Nepal Himalayas

  Akiko Sakai;Nozomu Takeuchi;Koji Fujita;Masayoshi Nakawo

  232
  Citations

• Contrasting glacier responses to recent climate change in high-mountain Asia.

  Akiko Sakai;Koji Fujita

  223
  Citations

• Potential flood volume of Himalayan glacial lakes

  K. Fujita;A. Sakai;S. Takenaka;T. Nuimura

  218
  Citations

• Recent changes in Imja Glacial Lake and its damming moraine in the Nepal Himalaya revealed by in situ surveys and multi-temporal ASTER imagery

  Koji Fujita;Akiko Sakai;Takayuki Nuimura;Satoru Yamaguchi

  218
  Citations

• Distribution characteristics and energy balance of ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers, Nepal Himalaya

  Akiko Sakai;Masayoshi Nakawo;Koji Fujita

  165
  Citations

• Onset of calving at supraglacial lakes on debris-covered glaciers of the Nepal Himalaya

  A. Sakai;K. Nishimura;T. Kadota;N. Takeuchi

  140
  Citations

• Modelling runoff from a Himalayan debris-covered glacier

  K. Fujita;A. Sakai

  134
  Citations

• Melt rate of ice cliffs on the Lirung Glacier, Nepal Himalayas, 1996

  Akiko Sakai;Masayoshi Nakawo;Koji Fujita

  125
  Citations

• Climate regime of Asian glaciers revealed by GAMDAM glacier inventory

  A. Sakai;T. Nuimura;T. Nuimura;K. Fujita;S. Takenaka

  125
  Citations

• Characteristics of Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalaya: recent change in the debris-covered area

  M. Nakawo;H. Yabuki;A. Sakai

  124
  Citations

• Debris-covered glacier anomaly? Morphological factors controlling changes in the mass balance, surface area, terminus position, and snow line altitude of Himalayan glaciers

  Franco Salerno;Sudeep Thakuri;Gianni Tartari;Takayuki Nuimura

  122
  Citations

• Formation conditions of supraglacial lakes on debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya

  Akiko Sakai;Koji Fujita

  120
  Citations

• Expansion of a moraine-dammed glacial lake, Tsho Rolpa, in Rolwaling Himal, Nepal Himalaya

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  115
  Citations

• Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia

  Unknown

  91
  Citations

• Southwest-facing slopes control the formation of debris-covered glaciers in the Bhutan Himalaya

  H. Nagai;K. Fujita;T. Nuimura;A. Sakai

  88
  Citations