A first-order flexible ELA model based on geomorphic constraints.

ABSTRACT: Alpine glaciers, with their valuable combination of highly sensitive response to climate and near-global extent, are powerful tools for investigating previous and present climate changes. They also represent critical water resources for areas around the globe, with the potential for far-reaching effects in a warming world. Advancements to understand and model glacial changes and the variables influencing them are therefore paramount. Many glacier models fall into one of two endmembers: either highly complex transient models requiring careful tuning of multiple parameters to individual glaciers, or basic empirical correlations of glacier area and length with few considerations for local and regional variations in characteristics. Here we detail a physical steady-state model for alpine glaci

SUBMITTER: Keeler DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771105 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature