Glacier Surface Mass Balance in the Suntar-Khayata Mountains, Northeastern Siberia

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Yong Zhang, Xin Wang, Zongli Jiang, Junfeng Wei, Hiroyuki Enomoto, Tetsuo Ohata
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: mass balance; Siberian subarctic; Suntar-Khayata Mountains; surface melt; Hydraulic engineering; TC1-978; Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes; TD201-500; Arctic; Suntar; Subarctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11091949; https://doaj.org/article/92c626421c1c4956b6b0c5094dc3395f

Arctic glaciers comprise a small fraction of the world’s land ice area, but their ongoing mass loss currently represents a large cryospheric contribution to the sea level rise. In the Suntar-Khayata Mountains (SKMs) of northeastern Siberia, in situ measurements of glacier surface mass balance (SMB)...