Rising ELA and expanding proglacial lakes indicate impending rapid retreat of Brady Glacier, Alaska
Abstract Brady Glacier is a large Alaskan tidewater glacier that is beginning a period of substantial retreat. Examination of 27 Landsat and MODIS images from the period 2003 to 2011 indicates that Brady Glacier has a mean equilibrium line altitude (ELA) of 745 m and accumulation area ratio (AAR) of...
Published in: | Hydrological Processes |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2013
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9913 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.9913 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.9913 |