A preliminary assessment of glacier melt-model parameter sensitivity and transferability in a dry subarctic environment

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. H. MacDougall, B. A. Wheler, G. E. Flowers
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Canada; Nash; Sutcliffe; Yukon; glacier*; Subarctic; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1011-2011; https://doaj.org/article/a72b222cbbff4c78bebccf5a9ba5ab1a

Efforts to project the long-term melt of mountain glaciers and ice-caps require that melt models developed and calibrated for well studied locations be transferable over large regions. Here we assess the sensitivity and transferability of parameters within several commonly used melt models for two p...