Brief communication: Growth and decay of an ice stupa in alpine conditions - a simple model driven by energy-flux observations over a glacier surface

• Main Authors: Oerlemans, Johannes, Balasubramanian, Suryanarayanan, Clavuot, Conradin, Keller, Felix
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2021
• Subjects: Stupa; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/493464; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000493464

We present a simple model to calculate the evolution of an ice stupa (artificial ice reservoir). The model is formulated for a cone geometry and driven by energy balance measurements over a glacier surface for a 5-year period. An "exposure factor"is introduced to deal with the fact that an...