Application of a degree-day model to reconstruct Pleistocene glacial climates

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Hughes, Philip D., Braithwaite, Roger J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2008
• Subjects: Ela; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2007.10.008; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589407001408?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589407001408?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400014344

There is empirical evidence of a nonlinear relation between annual precipitation, or accumulation, and summer mean temperature at the equilibrium line altitude (ELA) on glaciers around the world. The degree-day model gives a similar relation between accumulation and summer temperature, although inst...