Connections Between the Mass Balance, Ice Dynamics, and Hypsometry of White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut

This thesis investigates how changing climate conditions have impacted the mass balance, dynamics and associated hypsometry (area-elevation distribution) of White Glacier, an alpine glacier on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. The first article describes the production of a new map of White Glacier from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, Laura Irene
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5426
http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/35106