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Glacier mass balance measurements is an important element in understanding the processes of accumulation and ablation over a period of time that depend on the climatic conditions and geometry of the glacier. Glacier change can be through field, ground and aerial photographic measurements and high-resolution remote sensing at local, regional and global scale. In this study we presents a long time series ground observations of the mass balance and length change of Dokriani Glacier for the period 1992–2013. A medium sized glacier (6.6 km²) characterised by large accumulation area with narrowing ablation is located in the monsoon dominated zone of Central Himalaya, India. The spatial variability in the mass balance gradient profile of the two different study periods (i.e. 1992-2000 and 2007–2013) show consistency, but has shift upwards in the recent year. The glacier has higher value of AARn (67 …