Glacier mass balance
Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance
... Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early 2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance, existing field records have been extended, ...
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Reanalysing glacier mass balance measurement series
... Abstract. Glacier-wide mass balance has been measured for more than sixty years and is widely used as an indicator of climate change and to assess the glacier contribution to runoff and sea ...
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Airborne Laser Scanning Glacier Mass Balance
... the mass balance of alpine glaciers and components influencing the mass ...of glacier surface elevation changes as well as the determination of the glacier mass balance is ...
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Alpine-wide distributed glacier mass balance modelling: a tool for assessing future glacier change?
... PRECIPITATION The modeling of glacier mass balance must also consider the amount of solid precipitation dur- ing the accumulation season. The normal way is to use a measured precipitation sum (e.g., ...
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Integrating point glacier mass balance observations into hydrologic model identification
... As will become clear later in this paper, the model requires some structural modifications to reproduce the available dis- charge and glacier mass balance data. These step-wise modi- fications ...
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Glacier Mass Balance Variation in China during the Past Half Century
... on glacier an- nual balance, snow density, snowmelt, snow depth and snowmelt ...with glacier mass balance; analyses of glacier mass balance variations; an ...
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Examining geodetic glacier mass balance in the eastern Pamir transition zone
... the mass-balance conditions of glaciers in the eastern Pamir for two epochs: 2000 –09 and ...negative mass bal- ance with the boundary located at the north end of Kongur Tagh, and coincident with the ...
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Six decades of glacier mass-balance observations: a review of the worldwide monitoring network
... of glacier mass-balance observation, the WGMS has compiled a dataset of more than 3400 annual mass-balance measurements from 228 glaciers ...strong mass losses as early as the ...
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Six decades of glacier mass-balance observations: a review of the worldwide monitoring network
... World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) collects and publishes mass-balance data of glaciers obtained by direct glaciological and geodetic methods as a contribution to the Global Terrestrial Network ...
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Extrapolating glacier mass balance to the mountain-range scale: the European Alps 1900–2100
... area-averaged mass balance is ...the glacier surface, and roughly 50 % of the ice vol- ume, in the European Alps has been ...European glacier mass balance shows significant ...
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The climatic mass balance of Svalbard glaciers: a 10-year simulation with a coupled atmosphere–glacier mass balance model
... Model temperature biases of 0.19 and −1.9 ◦ C are found at two glacier automatic weather station sites. Simulated cli- matic mass balance is mostly within about 100 mm w.e. yr −1 of stake ...
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Recent glacier mass balance and area changes in the Kangri Karpo Mountains from DEMs and glacier inventories
... To improve the phase-unwrapping procedure and mini- mize errors, the unfilled, finished, SRTM C-band DEM was employed. Before generating the differential interferogram, precise horizontal offset registration and fitting ...
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Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation
... cumulative mass balance over 400 days at one particular point on the tongue of Morteratsch Glacier, Switzerland, using a glacier energy balance model of intermediate ...observed ...
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GlacierMIP – A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections
... one glacier model shows some years with negative SLE rates (especially for the lowest emission scenario), indicating annual glacier mass gains, despite overall regional mass loss ...other ...
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GlacierMIP – A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections
... Table S2. Initial regional glacier area (km 2 ) in 2015 for five glacier models. Values refer to arithmetic mean ± standard deviation of all model runs with the same glacier model forced by each ...
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Assessing the uncertainty of glacier mass-balance simulations in the European Arctic based on variance decomposition
... of a measured quantity remains a rather theoretical concept and can often not be determined. One therefore usually esti- mates a range of values within which the true value is likely to fall. Probability density ...
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Glacier mass balance reconstruction by sublimation induced enrichment of chemical species on Cerro Tapado (Chilean Andes)
... Fortunately, sublimation leaves a footprint in the chemical record which can be used to reconstruct the original situation. This study shows how, on the basis of chemical trace analysis and the measurement of tritium and ...
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Brief Communication: Contending estimates of 2003–2008 glacier mass balance over the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya
... present glacier thickness changes over the en- tire Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya arc based on ICESat satel- lite altimetry data for ...region-wide glacier el- evation change ( < − 1 m yr −1 ) is observed for ...
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Six decades (1958–2018) of geodetic glacier mass balance in Monte San Lorenzo, Patagonian Andes
... of glacier changes in the Patagonian Andes over decadal to century time-scales is presently limited by a lack of detailed and appropriate long- term ...geodetic mass and area changes of three valley ...
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Linking glacier annual mass balance and glacier albedo retrieved from MODIS data
... energy balance of several glaciers over the ablation season and its sensitivity to climate ...the mass balance of glaciers with a debris-covered ...annual mass balance can be used to ...
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