Editorial for the special issue in memoriam to Prof. Xie Zichu

• 作者: ShiYin Liu YongJian Ding ZhongQin Li Jiang Tong YinSheng Zhang JingShi Liu WanChang Zhang Bo Sun Yu Sheng Li Ma ShiQiao Zhou Xin Wang
• 来源期刊: 寒旱区科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（6）
• 页码范围: 前插1-前插4
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Prof. Xie Zichu passed away on January 25, 2020 in Changsha, Hunan Province, China at the age of 83 years old. Being one of the internationally re-nowned and highly respected glaciologists of China, this issue is dedicated with all respect in memory of him for his life-long effort and contribution to ad-vance studies on glaciology in China. He has under-taken field investigations on glacier mass balance, ice formation, snow avalanches, and glacial debris flows in the Arctic, Tianshan, Tibetan Plateau, Andes, Ant-arctica, and laboratory measurements of ice samples taken from Antarctic ice sheet. He has been decorated with the first-rank national prize for natural science studies, the special award from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), and many provincial prizes for his outstanding contribution in the field mentioned above. Prof. Xie has published over 200 journal and confer-ence papers, authored and co-authored 15 books/book chapters. We present a list of some representative arti-cles and books by him in the references. Those inter-ested in his research may trace back all his works.