(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI:10.1002/hyp.9453 Mass balance loss of Mount Baker, Washington glaciers 1990–2010

• Main Authors: Mauri Pelto, Courtenay Brown
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: KEY WORDS glacier mass balance; North Cascades; accumulation area ratio; balance gradient; Mount Baker; Baker Glacier
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.365.4159; http://www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/mount baker hyp.9453.pdf

Terminus observations on nine principal Mount Baker glaciers, 1984–2009, indicate retreat ranging from 240 to 520 m, with a mean of 370 m or 14 m a 1. AAR observations on Rainbow, Sholes and Easton Glaciers for 1990–2010 indicate a mean AAR of 0.55 and a steady state AAR of 0.65. A comparison of Ba...