Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA
The more than 40 year record of net and seasonal mass balance records from measurements made by the U.S. Geological Survey on South Cascade Glacier, Washington, and Wolverine and Gulkana Glaciers, Alaska, show annual and inter-annual fluctuations that reflect changes in the controlling climatic cond...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.521.9463 2023-05-15T16:20:19+02:00 Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA Edward G. Josberger William R Bidlake Rod S. March Ben W. Kennedy The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.9463 http://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/glacier/data/IGS_2006_.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.9463 http://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/glacier/data/IGS_2006_.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/glacier/data/IGS_2006_.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:11:08Z The more than 40 year record of net and seasonal mass balance records from measurements made by the U.S. Geological Survey on South Cascade Glacier, Washington, and Wolverine and Gulkana Glaciers, Alaska, show annual and inter-annual fluctuations that reflect changes in the controlling climatic conditions at regional and global scales. As the mass balance record grows in length, it is revealing significant changes in previously described glacier mass balance behavior, and both inter-glacier and glacier-climate relationships. South Cascade and Wolverine Glaciers are strongly affected by the warm and wet maritime climate of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Their net balances have generally been controlled by winter accumulation, with fluctuations that are strongly related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO). Recently, warm dry summers have begun to dominate the net balance of the two maritime glaciers, with a weakening of the correlation between the winter balance fluctuations and the PDO. Non-synchronous periods of positive and negative net balance for each glacier prior to 1989 were followed by a 1989-to-2004 Text glacier glaciers Alaska Unknown Cascade Glacier ENVELOPE(-140.504,-140.504,60.249,60.249) Pacific |
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The more than 40 year record of net and seasonal mass balance records from measurements made by the U.S. Geological Survey on South Cascade Glacier, Washington, and Wolverine and Gulkana Glaciers, Alaska, show annual and inter-annual fluctuations that reflect changes in the controlling climatic conditions at regional and global scales. As the mass balance record grows in length, it is revealing significant changes in previously described glacier mass balance behavior, and both inter-glacier and glacier-climate relationships. South Cascade and Wolverine Glaciers are strongly affected by the warm and wet maritime climate of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Their net balances have generally been controlled by winter accumulation, with fluctuations that are strongly related to the Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO). Recently, warm dry summers have begun to dominate the net balance of the two maritime glaciers, with a weakening of the correlation between the winter balance fluctuations and the PDO. Non-synchronous periods of positive and negative net balance for each glacier prior to 1989 were followed by a 1989-to-2004 |
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Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA |
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Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA |
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Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA |
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Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA |
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Glacier Mass-Balance Fluctuations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA |
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