Modeling Ablation on Place Glacier, British Columbia, from Glacier and Off-glacier Data Sets

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Bulk Heat-Transfer, Energy Balance, Mass Balance, Parametrization, Radiation, Albedo

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The results of two simulations of hourly ablation, from late July to September 2002, at a site oil the Place Glacier are described. First, ablation is modeled from a data set collected at the glacier site; second, from a data set collected off-glacier at a site below the glacier tongue. The glacier data set simulations, based as they are oil global and reflected short-wave radiation measurements, a net long-wave radiation model and the bulk turbulent heat transfer approach. provides a reasonably good simulation of Cumulative ablation, amounting to almost 1.2 m during the experimental period, mostly due to melting out of the preceding winter snowpack. Average melt component flux densities due to net short-wave radiation, net long-wave radiation, sensible heat and latent heat due to moisture exchange are 93.1. -22.6, 14.4 and 3.91 W m(-2). respectively, during this time. The glacier site data are also used to fit a snow albedo model to albedo measurements for old and new sn!
ow cover. The albedo model is then used in the second simulation, which is based oil global radiation measurements. a similar net long-wave radiation model, and a heat transfer approach in which turbulent mixing due to katabatic and geostrophic now is parameterized from the off-glacier temperature data. The second simulation scheme performs best if the katabatic component of the parameterization scheme is Suppressed because the wind regime at the glacier site appears to be intermittent, but the scheme itself is based upon the idea of a continuously flowing glacier wind.

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