Rising ELA and expanding proglacial lakes indicate impending rapid retreat of Brady Glacier, Alaska

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Pelto, M., Capps, D., Clague, J. J., Pelto, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Ela; Western Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Yakutat; Alaska
• 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

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...