Altitude variation of glacier mass balance in Scandinavia

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Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3113401r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 13, CiteID L13401

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Hydrology: Glaciology (1863), Hydrology: Snow And Ice (1827), Information Related To Geographic Region: Europe

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For each of ten glaciers in Norway and two in Sweden, vertical profiles of net balance bn(z), which are typically published as values at about a dozen altitudes, are strongly linear and nearly parallel from year to year. Separate linear functions fit the bn(z) from year to year with r2 >= 0.89 over the 12 glaciers. A family of parallel lines for each glacier that differ from year to year only by an amount Δbn constant with altitude has r2 >= 0.85. There is an altitude z' on each glacier where the measured balance bn(z') correlates well with the glacier-total bn with r >= 0.97 over the 12 glaciers. A remarkable consequence of this and of the high correlation of bn between many of the glaciers in the region is that measurements on one glacier (1775 meters on Hardangerjøkulen) provide a good estimate of bn at several other glaciers.

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