COMPARISON OF MELT ENERGY COMPUTATIONS AND ABLATOMETER MEASUREMENTS ON MELTING ICE AND SNOW

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MUNRO, DS [1 ]
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[1] UNIV COLORADO, COOPERAT INST RES ENVIRONM STUDIES, BOULDER, CO 80309 USA
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10.2307/1551300
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
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Micrometeorological techniques were used to compute hourly melt energy for ablating ice and snow surfaces on Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada. The computations were compared with measurements taken from electronic ablatometers which directly monitored surface lowering. Agreement between daily totals obtained from the two methods was found to be excellent for ice and reasonably good for snow. Delay in runoff from melting ice and snow is linked to diurnal changes in surface water storage. -from Author
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