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SUBMITTER: Noel B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7490702 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200914 1
Compared to other Arctic ice masses, Svalbard glaciers are low-elevated with flat interior accumulation areas, resulting in a marked peak in their current hypsometry (area-elevation distribution) at ~450 m above sea level. Since summer melt consistently exceeds winter snowfall, these low-lying glaciers can only survive by refreezing a considerable fraction of surface melt and rain in the porous firn layer covering their accumulation zones. We use a high-resolution climate model to show that mod ...[more]