Explaining mass balance and retreat dichotomies at Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers, Alaska

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Christopher McNeil, Shad O'Neel, Michael Loso, Mauri Pelto, Louis Sass, Emily H. Baker, Seth Campbell
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Subjects: Applied glaciology; climate change; glacier mass balance; glacier monitoring; mountain glaciers; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Taku; Lemon Creek; glacier; glaciers; Journal of Glaciology; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.22; https://doaj.org/article/cb7f7aaeba1840bc88511a194e7121ce

We reanalyzed mass balance records at Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers to better understand the relative roles of hypsometry, local climate and dynamics as mass balance drivers. Over the 1946–2018 period, the cumulative mass balances diverged. Tidewater Taku Glacier advanced and gained mass at an avera...