Glacier volume response time and its links to climate and topography based on a conceptual model of glacier hypsometry

• Main Authors: S. C. B. Raper, R. J. Braithwaite
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2009
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg; New Zealand; Norway; Svalbard; glacier; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/188dd5e8038840f08123ed1fe17c0ab7

Glacier volume response time is a measure of the time taken for a glacier to adjust its geometry to a climate change. It has been previously proposed that the volume response time is given approximately by the ratio of glacier thickness to ablation at the glacier terminus. We propose a new conceptua...