Spatial and Temporal Variability of Glacier Melt in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Main Author: Hoffman, Matthew James
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PDXScholar 2011
• Subjects: Meltwater > Antarctica > McMurdo Dry Valleys; Glaciers > Antarctica > McMurdo Dry Valleys; Ablation (Aerothermodynamics); East Antarctica; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/744; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1743&context=open_access_etds

In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, East Antarctica, melting of glacial ice is the primary source of water to streams, lakes, and associated ecosystems. To better understand meltwater production, three hypotheses are tested: 1) that small changes in the surface energy balance on these glacier...