Original scientific paper
THE MASS BALANCE OF A SMALL GLACIER IN NORTH-ICELAND
Kaisa Halkola
; University of Helsinki, University of Svalbard and the Icelandic Meteorological Office
Haraldur Ólafsson
; Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland), Veðurstofa Íslands (Icelandic Meteorological Office) and Rannsóknastofa í veðurfræði (Institute for Meteorological Research)
Yngvar Gjessing
; University of Bergen and University of Svalbard
Abstract
The mass balance of a small glacier in North-Iceland is estimated during a 52 day period in the autumn of 2002. The accumulated snow is measured, precipitation is simulated and sublimation is calculated from weather observations. The estimations indicate that precipitation is an order of magnitude greater than net transport of snow and sublimation during periods of blowing snow.
Keywords
Kambsjökull; Iceland; mass balance; precipitation; MM5; sublimation; snowdrift; numerical simulation
Hrčak ID:
64944
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2005.
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