Simplification of heat balance calculation and its application to the glacier runoff from the July 1st Glacier in northwest China since the 1930s

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-596

  Sakai, Akiko ^a   Fujita, Koji ^a   Nakawo, Masayoshi ^b   Yao, Tandong ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Humanities   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Discharge; Mass balance; Meltwater; Runoff

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MELTING POINT; RUNOFF; SPECIFIC HEAT; SUN; WATER RESOURCES;

ACCUMULATION; AIR TEMPERATURES; DAILY DISCHARGES; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DISCHARGE; DOWNWARD SOLAR RADIATIONS; GLACIER RUNOFFS; HEAT BALANCES; MASS BALANCE; MEAN TEMPERATURES; MELTWATER; METEOROLOGICAL DATUM; METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS; NORTHWEST CHINAS; OBSERVED DATUM; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES;

GLACIERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE; MELTWATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RUNOFF;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 61849164542     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7187     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Andrews JT. 1975. Glacial Systems. Duxbury Press: North Scituate, MA; 191.
2. Braithwate RJ. 1995. Positive degree-day factors for ablation on the Greenland Ice-sheet studied by energy-balance modeling. Journal of Glaciology 41(137): 153-160.
3. Braithwate RJ. 1996. Models of ice-atmosphere interactions for the Greenland ice sheet. Annals of Glaciology 23: 149-153.
4. Ding L, Kang X. 1985. Climatic conditions for the development of glacier and their effect on the characteristics of glaciers in Qilian mountains. Memoirs of Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Cryopedology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 5(4): 9-15.
5. Fujita K, Ageta Y. 2000. Effect of summer accumulation on glacier mass balance on the Tibetan Plateau revealed by mass-balance model. Journal of Glaciology 46(153): 244-252.
6. Fujita K, Sakai A, Matsuda Y, Narama C, Naito N, Yamaguchi S, Hiyama K, Pu J, Yao T, Nakawo M. 2006. Topographical survey of July 1st Glacier in Qilian Mountains, China. Bulletin of Glaciological Research 23: 63-67.
7. Hock R. 2003. Temperature index melt modeling on mountain zones. Journal of Hydrology 282: 104-115.
8. Huang M. 1990. On the temperature distribution of glaciers in China. Journal of Glaciology 36(123): 210-215.
9. Johannesson T, Sigurdsson O, Laumann T. 1995. Degree-day glacier mass-balance modeling with applications to glaciers in Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Journal of Glaciology 41(138): 345-358.
10. Kalnay E, Kanamitsu M, Kistler R, Collins W, Deaven D, Gandin L, Iredell M, Saha S, White G, Woolen J, Zhu Y, Leetmaa A, Reynolds R, Chelliah M, Ebisuzaki W, Higgins W, Janowiak J, Mo KC, Ropelewski C, Wang J, Jenne R, Josph D. 1996. The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 77: 437-471.
11. Kang E, Cheng G, Lan Y, Jin H. 1999. A model for simulating the response of runoff from the mountainous watersheds of inland river basins in the arid zone of northwest China to climatic changes. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences 42: 52-63.
12. Kayastha RB, Ageta Y, Nakawo M, Fujita K, Sakai A, Matsuda Y. 2003. Positive degree-day factor for ice ablation on four glaciers in the Nepalese Himalayas and Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Bulletin of Glaciological Research 20: 7-14.
13. Kondo J. 1994. Meteorology of Water Environments. Asakuta Publishing Co. Ltd.: Tokyo; 348, (in Japanese).
14. Kondo J, Xu J. 1997. Seasonal variations in the heat and water balances for nonvegetated surfaces. Journal of Applied Meteorology 36: 1676-1695.
15. Liu C, Song G, Jin M. 1992a. Recent change and trend prediction of glaciers in Qilian Mountain. Memoirs of Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 7: 1-9, (in Chinese).
16. Liu C, Xie Z, Yang H, Wei Y. 1992b. Observation, interpolation and trend study of glacial mass balance on the Qiyi Glacier in Qilian Mountain. Memoirs of Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 7: 21-33, (in Chinese, with English abstract).
17. Matsuda Y, Fujita K, Ageta Y, Sakai A. 2006. Estimation of atmospheric transmissivity of solar radiation from precipitation in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. Annals of Glaciology 43: 344-350.
18. Motoyama H. 1990. Simulation of seasonal snowcover based on air temperature and precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology 29(11): 1104-1110.
19. Ohmura A. 2001. Physical basis for the temperature-based melt-index method. Journal of Applied Meteorology 40: 753-761.
20. Sakai A, Fujita K, Duan K, Pu J, Nakawo M, Yao T. 2006c. Five decades of shrinkage of the July 1st Glacier, Qilian Mountains, China. Journal of Glaciology 176(52): 11-16.
21. Sakai A, Fujita K, Matsuda Y, Duan K, Pu J, Yamaguchi S, Nakawo M, Yao T. 2006b. Hydrological observations at July 1st Glacier in northwest China from 2002 to 2004. Bulletin of Glaciological Research 23: 33-39.
22. Sakai A, Fujita K, Matsuda Y, Matoba S, Uetake J, Duan K, Pu J, Nakawo M, Yao T. 2006a. Meteorological observation at July 1st Glacier in northwest China from 2002 to 2004. Bulletin of Glaciological Research 23: 23-31.
23. Singh P, Kumar N, Arora M. 2000. Degree-day factors for snow and ice for Dokriani Glacier. Journal of Hydrology 235: 1-11.
24. Ueno K, Endoh N, Ohata T, Yabuki H, Koike M, Ohta T, Zhang Y. 1994. Characteristics of precipitation distribution in Tanggula, Monsoon, 1993. Bulletin of Glacier Research 12: 39-47.
25. Wang G, Cheng G. 1999. Water resource development and its influence on the environment in arid zones of China - the case of the Hei River basin. Journal of Arid Environments 43: 121-131.
26. Xie Z, Wu G, Wang L. 1985. Recent advance and retreat of glaciers in Qilian Mountains. Memoirs of Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Cryopedology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 5: 82-90, (in Chinese).
27. Yamazaki T, Kondo J, Sakuraoka T, Nakamura T. 1993. A one-dimensional model of the evolution of snow-cover characteristics. Annals of Glaciology 18: 22-26.
28. Ye B, Yang D, Jiao K, Han T, Jin Z, Yang H, Li Z. 2005. The Urumqi River source Glacier No. 1, Tianshan, China: Changes over the past 45 years. Geophysical Research Letters 32: L21504, DOI:10.1029/ 2005GL024178.