Exceptionally High 2018 Equilibrium Line Altitude on Taku Glacier, Alaska

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Author: Mauri Pelto
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: glacier runoff; transient snow line; equilibrium line altitude; climate change; Landsat; glacier ablation; Ela; Taku; Juneau Icefield; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202378

The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) has been examining the glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1946. The height of the transient snowline (TSL) at the end of the summer represents the annual equilibrium line altitude (ELA) for the glacier, where ablation equals accumulation. On Taku Glacie...