Glacier volume response time and its links to climate and topography based on a conceptual model of glacier hypsometry

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Glacier volume response time and its links to climate and topography based on a conceptual model of glacier hypsometry

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Glacier volume response time is a measure of the time taken for a glacier to adjust its geometry to a climate change. It has been previously proposed that the volume response time is given approximately by the ratio of glacier thickness to ablation at the glacier terminus. We propose a new conceptual model of glacier hypsometry (area-altitude relation) and derive the volume response time where climatic and topographic parameters are separated. The former is expressed by mass balance gradients...

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2009-08-01

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S. C. B. Raper / R. J. Braithwaite

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The Cryosphere

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http://www.the-cryosphere.net/3/183/2009/tc-3-183-2009.pdf

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Environmental sciences / Geology

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