Seasonal sediment fluxes forcing supraglacial melting on the Wright Lower Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 3192-3207

  Macdonell, Shelley A ^a,b   Fitzsimons, Sean J ^a   Mölg, Thomas ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryoconite hole; Glacier energy balance; Glacier hydrology; Hydrochemistry

Indexed keywords

CRYOCONITE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLACIER HYDROLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; MIXING MODELLING; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOURCE OF ENERGY;

ABLATION; ENERGY BALANCE; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MELTING; SOLAR RADIATION;

SEDIMENTS;

ALBEDO; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY BUDGET; FOEHN; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MELTING; MELTWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUBLIMATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 84884985084     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9444     Document Type: Article

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