Modeling Mass-Balance Changes During a Glaciation Cycle
Open Access
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 14, 238-241
- https://doi.org/10.3189/s0260305500008661
Abstract
Identification of present-day climate setting and alpine glacier-balance gradients indicates that the balance gradient of alpine glaciers is primarily determined by climatic conditions. Determination of balance gradients for specific climatic settings on present-day ice sheets provides an analog for determining the mass balance on paleo and future ice sheets.Keywords
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