Summertime surface energy budget and ablation modeling in the ablation zone of a maritime Tibetan glacier

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Wei ^a,b   Guo, Xiaofeng ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Yang, Kun ^a   Zhao, Long ^a   Li, Shenghai ^a   Zhu, Meilin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIERS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LATENT HEAT; MELTING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; BULK AERODYNAMIC; CLOUD COVER; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GLACIER MELTING; HEAT RELEASE; LONG WAVES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MASS BALANCE; MELT ENERGY; SENSIBLE HEAT; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SUBSURFACE FLUX; SURFACE ABLATION; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; SURFACE MELTING; TEMPERATURE INDEX; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; VAPOR CONDENSATION;

ABLATION;

ABLATION; ACCELERATION; AERODYNAMICS; ALBEDO; CALIBRATION; CLOUD COVER; CONDENSATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY FLUX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLACIER; HEAT BALANCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MASS BALANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUMMER; SURFACE ENERGY; TURBULENCE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79961225866     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015183     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Aizen, V. B., E. M. Aizen, and S. A. Nikitin (2002), Glacier regime on the northern slope of the Himalaya (Xixibangma glaciers), Quat. Int., 97-98, 27-39, doi:10.1016/S1040-6182(02)00049-6. (Pubitemid 35255585)
2. Andreas, E. L. (1987), A theory for the scalar roughness and the scalar transfer coefficients over snow and sea ice, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 38, 159-184, doi:10.1007/BF00121562.
3. Andreas, E. L. (2002), Parameterizing scalar transfer over snow and ice: A review, J. Hydrometeorol., 3, 417-432, doi:10.1175/1525-7541(2002) 003<0417:PSTOSA>2.0.CO;2.
4. Barnett, T. P., J. C. Adam, and D. P. Lettenmaier (2005), Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow-dominated regions, Nature, 438, 303-309, doi:10.1038/nature04141. (Pubitemid 41643941)
5. Berthier, E., Y. Arnaud, R. Kumar, S. Ahmad, P. Wagnon, and P. Chevallier (2007), Remote sensing estimates of glacier mass balances in the Himachal Pradesh (western Himalaya, India), Remote Sens. Environ., 108, 327-338, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2006.11.017. (Pubitemid 46669604)
6. Bintanja, R., S. Jonsson, and W. H. Knap (1997), The annual cycle of the surface energy balance of Antarctic blue ice, J. Geophys. Res., 102(D2), 1867-1881, doi:10.1029/96JD01801.
7. Braithwaite, R. J. (1995), Positive degree-day factors for ablation on the Greenland ice sheet studied by energy-balance modelling, J. Glaciol., 41, 153-160.
8. Brock, B. W., I. C. Willis, and M. J. Sharp (2006), Measurement and parameterization of aerodynamic roughness length variations at Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland, J. Glaciol., 52, 281-297, doi:10.3189/ 172756506781828746. (Pubitemid 44261611)
9. Chang, C. P., and G. T. J. Chen (1995), Tropical circulations associated with southwest monsoon onset and westerly surges over the South China Sea, Mon. Weather Rev., 123, 3254-3267, doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1995) 123<3254: TCAWSM>2.0.CO;2.
10. Cullen, N. J., T. Mölg, G. Kaser, K. Steffen, and D. R. Hardy (2007), Energy-balance model validation on the top of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, using eddy covariance data, Ann. Glaciol., 46, 227-233, doi:10.3189/ 172756407782871224.
11. Dobhal, D. P., J. T. Gergan, and R. J. Thayyen (2008), Mass balance studies of the Dokriani Glacier from 1992 to 2002, Garhwal Himalaya, India, Bull. Glaciol. Res., 25, 9-17.
12. Francou, B., M. Vuille, P. Wagnon, J. Mendoza, and J. E. Sicart (2003), Tropical climate change recorded by a glacier in the central Andes during the last decades of the twentieth century: Chacaltaya, Bolivia, 16°S, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D5), 4154, doi:10.1029/2002JD002959.
13. Fujita, K. (2008), Effect of precipitation seasonality on climatic sensitivity of glacier mass balance, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 276, 14-19, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.028.
14. Giesen, R. H., M. R. Van den Broeke, J. Oerlemans, and L. M. Andreassen (2008), Surface energy balance in the ablation zone of Midtdalsbreen, a glacier in southern Norway: Interannual variability and the effect of clouds, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D21111, doi:10.1029/2008JD010390.
15. Guo, X., K. Yang, L. Zhao, W. Yang, S. Li, M. Zhu, T. Yao, and Y. Chen (2011), Critical evaluation of scalar roughness length parametrizations over a melting valley glacier, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 139, 307-332, doi:10.1007/s10546-010-9586-9.
16. Hewitt, K. (2005), The Karakoram anomaly? Glacier expansion and the "elevation effect," Karakoram Himalaya, Mt. Res. Dev., 25, 332-340, doi:10.1659/0276-4741(2005)025[0332:TKAGEA]2.0.CO;2.
17. Hock, R. (1996), Some aspects of energy balance and ablation of Storglaciären, northern Sweden, Geogr. Ann., Ser. A, 78, 121-131, doi:10.2307/ 520974.
18. Hock, R. (2003), Temperature index melt modelling in mountain areas, J. Hydrol., 282, 104-115, doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00257-9. (Pubitemid 37365176)
19. Holtslag, A. A. M., and H. A. R. De Bruin (1988), Applied modeling of the nighttime surface energy balance over land, J. Appl. Meteorol., 27, 689-704, doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1988)027<0689:AMOTNS>2.0.CO;2.
20. Immerzeel, W. W., L. P. Van Beek, and M. F. Bierkens (2010), Climate change will affect the Asian Water Towers, Science, 328, 1382-1385, doi:10.1126/science.1183188.
21. Kaser, G., D. R. Hardy, T. Mölg, R. S. Bradley, and T. M. Hyera (2004), Modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro as evidence of climate change: Observations and facts, Int. J. Climatol., 24, 329-339, doi:10.1002/ joc.1008. (Pubitemid 38485296)
22. Li, X., G. Cheng, H. Jin, E. Kang, T. Che, R. Jin, L. Wu, Z. Nan, J. Wang, and Y. Shen (2008), Cryospheric change in China, Global Planet. Change, 62, 210-218, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.02.001.
23. Liu, X., and B. Chen (2000), Climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades, Int. J. Climatol., 20, 1729-1742, doi:10.1002/1097- 0088(20001130)20:14<1729::AID-JOC556>3.0.CO;2-Y. (Pubitemid 32065367)
24. Mölg, T., and D. R. Hardy (2004), Ablation and associated energy balance of a horizontal glacier surface on Kilimanjaro, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D16104, doi:10.1029/2003JD004338. (Pubitemid 39428403)
25. Munneke, P. K., M. R. Van den Broeke, C. H. Reijmer, M. M. Helsen, W. Boot, M. Schneebeli, and K. Steffen (2009), The role of radiation penetration in the energy budget of the snowpack at Summit, Greenland, Cryosphere, 3, 155-165, doi:10.5194/tc-3-155-2009.
26. Munneke, P. K., C. H. Reijmer, and M. R. Van den Broeke (2011), Assessing the retrieval of cloud properties from radiation measurements over snow and ice, Int. J. Climatol., 31, 756-769, doi:10.1002/joc.2114.
27. Nash, J. E., and J. V. Sutcliffe (1970), River flow forecasting through conceptual models. Part 1. A discussion of principles, J. Hydrol., 10, 282-290, doi:10.1016/0022-1694(70)90255-6.
28. Oerlemans, J., and E. J. Klok (2002), Energy balance of a glacier surface: Analysis of automatic weather station data from the Morteratschgletscher, Switzerland, Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res., 34, 477-485, doi:10.2307/ 1552206. (Pubitemid 36058788)
29. Ohmura, A. (2001), Physical basis for the temperature-based melt-index method, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40, 753-761, doi:10.1175/1520-0450 (2001)040<0753:PBFTTB>2.0.CO;2. (Pubitemid 32494783)
30. Oke, T. R. (1987), Boundary Layer Climates, 2nd ed., 435 pp., Routledge, New York.
31. Pang, H., Y. He, and N. Zhang (2007), Accelerating glacier retreat on Yulong mountain, Tibetan Plateau, since the late 1990s, J. Glaciol., 53, 317-319, doi:10.3189/172756507782202900.
32. Paterson, W. S. B. (1994), The Physics of Glaciers, 3rd ed., Pergamon, New York.
33. Pu, J., T. Yao, M. Yang, L. Tian, N. Wang, Y. Ageta, and K. Fujita (2008), Rapid decrease of mass balance observed in the Xiao (Lesser) Dongkemadi Glacier, in the central Tibetan Plateau, Hydrol. Process., 22, 2953-2958, doi:10.1002/hyp.6865.
34. Qin, J., K. Yang, S. Liang, and X. Guo (2009), The altitudinal dependence of recent rapid warming over the Tibetan Plateau, Clim. Change, 97, 321-327, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9733-9.
35. Rupper, S., and G. Roe (2008), Glacier changes and regional climate: A mass and energy balance approach, J. Clim., 21, 5384-5401, doi:10.1175/ 2008JCLI2219.1.
36. Shi, Y., and S. Liu (2000), Estimation on the response of glaciers in China to the global warming in the 21st century, Chin. Sci. Bull., 45, 668-672, doi:10.1007/BF02886048. (Pubitemid 32146869)
37. Sicart, J. E., R. Hock, and D. Six (2008), Glacier melt, air temperature, and energy balance in different climates: The Bolivian Tropics, the French Alps, and northern Sweden, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24113, doi:10.1029/ 2008JD010406.
38. Smeets, C. J. P. P. (2006), Assessing unaspirated temperature measurements using a thermocouple and a physically based model, in The Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers, Extended Abstracts-Workshop and GLACIODYN Planning Meeting 2006, pp. 99-101, Inst. for Mar. and Atmos. Res. Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
39. Smeets, C., and M. R. Van den Broeke (2008), The parameterisation of scalar transfer over rough ice, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 128, 339-355, doi:10.1007/s10546-008-9292-z.
40. Takahashi, S., T. Ohata, and Y. Xie (1989), Characteristics of heat and water fluxes on glacier and ground surfaces in the West Kunlun Mountains, Bull. Glaciol. Res., 7, 89-98.
41. Van D., M. Van den Broeke, C. Reijmer, and R. Van de Wal (2005), The summer surface energy balance of the high Antarctic plateau, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 115, 289-317, doi:10.1007/s10546-004-4631-1. (Pubitemid 40374138)
42. Van den Broeke, M., D. Van As, C. Reijmer, and R. Van de Wal (2004), Assessing and improving the quality of unattended radiation observations in Antarctica, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21, 1417-1431, doi:10.1175/ 1520-0426(2004)021<1417:AAITQO>2.0.CO;2.
43. Van den Broeke, M., C. Reijmer, D. Van As, and W. Boot (2006), Daily cycle of the surface energy balance in Antarctica and the influence of clouds, Int. J. Climatol., 26, 1587-1605, doi:10.1002/joc.1323. (Pubitemid 44612970)
44. Van den Broeke, M., P. Smeets, and J. Ettema (2009), Surface layer climate and turbulent exchange in the ablation zone of the west Greenland ice sheet, Int. J. Climatol., 29, 2309-2323, doi:10.1002/joc.1815.
45. Wagnon, P., A. Linda, Y. Arnaud, R. Kumar, P. Sharma, C. Vincent, J. G. Pottakkal, E. Berthier, A. Ramanathan, and S. I. Hasnain (2007), Four years of mass balance on Chhota Shigri Glacier, Himachal Pradesh, India, a new benchmark glacier in the western Himalaya, J. Glaciol., 53, 603-611, doi:10.3189/ 002214307784409306.
46. Xie, Y. (1994), Autumn heat balance in the ablation area of Hailuogou Glacier, in Glaciers and Environment in the Tibet Plateau (1), the Gongga Mountain, edited by Z. Xie and V. M. Kotlykov, pp. 94-109, Science Press, Beijing.
47. Yang, K., T. Koike, H. Fujii, K. Tamagawa, and N. Hirose (2002), Improvement of surface flux parameterizations with a turbulence-related length, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 128, 2073-2087, doi:10.1256/ 003590002320603548. (Pubitemid 34990096)
48. Yang, W., T. Yao, B. Xu, G. Wu, L. Ma, and X. Xin (2008), Quick ice mass loss and abrupt retreat of the maritime glaciers in the Kangri Karpo Mountains, southeast Tibetan Plateau, Chin. Sci. Bull., 53, 2547-2551, doi:10.1007/s11434- 008-0288-3.
49. Yao, T., J. Pu, A. Lu, Y. Wang, and W. Yu (2007), Recent glacial retreat and its impact on hydrological processes on the Tibetan Plateau, China, and surrounding regions, Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res., 39, 642-650, doi:10.1657/1523- 0430(07-510)[YAO]2.0.CO;2. (Pubitemid 350174862)
50. Yao, T., Z. Li, W. Yang, X. Guo, L. Zhu, S. Kang, Y. Wu, and W. Yu (2010), Glacial distribution and mass balance in the Yarlung Zangbo River and its influence on lakes, Chin. Sci. Bull., 55, 2072-2078, doi:10.1007/s11434-010- 3213-5.
51. Zhang, Y., T. Yao, J. Pu, T. Ohata, H. Yabuki, and K. Fujita (1996), Energy budget at ELA on Dongkemadi Glacier in the Tanggula Mts. Tibetan Plateau, J. Glaciol. Geocryol., 18, 10-19.