Distributed energy balance modeling of South Cascade Glacier, Washington and assessment of model uncertainty

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Anslow, Faron S ^a,b   Hostetler, Steven ^a   Bidlake, William R ^c   Clark, Peter U ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Washington Water Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALBEDO; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CASCADE GLACIER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 50849104298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000850     Document Type: Article

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