An estimate of the glacier ice volume in the Swiss Alps

被引：116

作者：

Farinotti, Daniel ^{[1
]}

Huss, Matthias ^{[1
]}

Bauder, Andreas ^{[1
]}

Funk, Martin ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Lab Hydraul Hydrol & Glaciol VAW, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

来源：

GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE | 2009年 / 68卷 / 03期

关键词：

ice volume; ice thickness; volume-area scaling; radio-echo sounding; Swiss Alps; MASS-BALANCE; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION; UNTERAARGLETSCHER; AREA; MODEL; FLOW;

D O I：

10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.05.004

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

Changes in glacier volume are important for questions linked to sea-level rise, water resource management, and tourism industry. With the ongoing climate warming, the retreat of mountain glaciers is a major concern. Predictions of glacier changes, necessarily need the present ice volume as initial condition, and for transient modelling, the ice thickness distribution has to be known. In this paper, a method based on mass conservation and principles of ice flow dynamics is applied to 62 glaciers located in the Swiss Alps for estimating their ice thickness distribution. All available direct ice thickness measurements are integrated. The ice volumes are referenced to the year 1999 by means of a mass balance time series. The results are used to calibrate a volume-area scaling relation, and the coefficients obtained show good agreement with values reported in the literature. We estimate the total ice volume present in the Swiss Alps in the year 1999 to be 74 +/- 9 km(3). About 12% of this volume was lost between 1999 and 2008, whereas the extraordinarily warm summer 2003 caused a volume loss of about 3.5%. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：225 / 231

页数：7

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