Mountain glacier
Evaluation of different methods to model near-surface turbulent fluxes for a mountain glacier in the Cariboo Mountains, BC, Canada
... simulate glacier melting, choosing parameterizations to ade- quately estimate turbulent heat fluxes is extremely challeng- ...sloped glacier surface, and two less commonly used bulk methods developed from ...
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Surface-layer turbulence, energy balance and links to atmospheric circulations over a mountain glacier in the French Alps
... Turbulent energy transfer can play a significant role in the SEB of glaciers (e.g. Sicart et al., 2008; Six et al., 2009), especially at high altitudes and low latitudes, where sublima- tion can significantly reduce the ...
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High-resolution interactive modelling of the mountain glacier–atmosphere interface: an application over the Karakoram
... the glacier–atmosphere interface without statistical downscaling (M¨olg and Kaser, 2011), through the use of an interactively coupled high-resolution mesoscale atmospheric and physically based CMB modelling ...in ...
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Contribution of Mountain Glacier Melting to Sea Level Changes: Recent Past and Future
... Ice-volume changes of 100 glaciated regions Table C.1 lists predicted ice-volume changes of 100 glaciated regions over the period 1871-1990, using various combinations of temperature and[r] ...
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Effects of local advection on the spatial sensible heat flux variation on a mountain glacier
... The choice of observations sites, and thus the derived temperature gradients, determines the magnitude of the lo- cal sensible heat flux errors. Calculated temperature lapse rates are shallower (< − 0.003 K m −1 ) ...
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Future high mountain hydrology: a new parameterization of glacier retreat
... of mountain glaciers in response to ongoing cli- mate change is expected to have major impacts on the wa- ter resources in alpine environments all over the world ...and glacier ice is a key el- ement in the ...
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Quantifying the contribution of glacier runoff to streamflow in the upper Columbia River Basin, Canada
... of glacier volume change in the calibration procedure ef- fectively reduced parameter uncertainty and helped to ensure that the model was accurately predicting glacier mass bal- ance as well as ...
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Rayleigh wave scattering at the foot of a mountain
... RAYLEIGH WAVE SCATTERING AT THE FOOT OF A MOUNTAIN transmitted wave in 5.29 depends upon width.. of the mountain..[r] ...
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Last chance tourism at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Westland Tai Poutini National Park: Stakeholder perspective
... Understanding the impacts of climate change on tourism destinations requires knowledge about both physical resources and the characteristics of tourism at that destination; stakeholders involved in tourism facilitation ...
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A new method for deriving glacier centerlines applied to glaciers in Alaska and northwest Canada
... requiring glacier outlines and a digital eleva- tion model (DEM) as ...of glacier heads ...highest glacier elevations compare well to our longest cen- terline ...calculating glacier length, ...
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NON-DESTRUCTIVELY MAPPING THE IN-SITU HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES OF SNOW, FIRN, AND GLACIAL ICE WITH GEORADAR
... Sperry Glacier with a warming rate of i °C/century above present temperature (note that i represents a temperature rise at a rate of i/century so actual temperatures at any time t < 100 will be less than ...
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Momentum Flux Spectra of a Mountain Wave Event Over New Zealand
... Gravity waves (GWs) have been known for many years to play major roles in the dynamics and structure of the atmosphere from the Earth ’ s surface into the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). A key role is the ...
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Origin and dynamic significance of longitudinal structures (“flow stripes”) in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
... Although there is compelling evidence for recent and very rapid changes in the velocity (Pritchard et al., 2009) and surface elevation (Johnson et al., 2014) of individual outlet glaciers in Antarctica, it is possible ...
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A multi parameter study of iceberg calving and the retreat of Haupapa/Tasman Glacier, South Island, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... the glacier shorter by providing me with alternate transport options and an ear to talk to at the end of the day, Dennis Callesen for keeping me up to date on everything going on at Tasman whilst I wasn’t there ...
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Improving estimation of glacier volume change: a GLIMS case study of Bering Glacier System, Alaska
... parent glacier, slowly disintegrate via progres- sion of glacier thermokarst; first, growth of debris contin- ues, second, moulins and crevasses develop into sinkholes and then into large water-filled ...
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Assessing glacier melt contribution to streamflow at Universidad Glacier, central Andes of Chile
... estimating glacier melt contribu- tion to streamflow from glaciers in the central region of ...total glacier runoff and discharge estimations in the proglacial ...the glacier (Shaw, 2017; Shaw et ...
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Surface lowering of the debris-covered area of Kanchenjunga Glacier in the eastern Nepal Himalaya since 1975, as revealed by Hexagon KH-9 and ALOS satellite observations
... the glacier surface to elucidate the importance of these small-scale features, since they require high-resolution ...debris-covered glacier in a data-scarce region in the easternmost Nepal ...
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Quantifying Himalayan glacier change from the 1960s to early 2000s, using corona, glims and aster geospatial Data
... 3D glacier mapping tool in the Himalaya, there is a need to test and formulate new photogrammetry-based orthorectification/DEM extraction ...mapping glacier parameters (Racoviteanu et ...
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