Observation and modelling of glacier mass balances in Patagonia and Svalbard : application and enhancement of temperature-index based modelling approaches

• Main Author: Möller, Marco
• Other Authors: Schneider, Christoph
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University 2011
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550; Glaziologie; Patagonien <Süd>; Svalbard <Nordost>; Modellierung; Geowissenschaften; glaciology; Patagonia; Svalbard; modelling; Arctic; Greenland; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard Archipelago; Vestfonna; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier
• Online Access: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/62866; https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/search?p=id:%22RWTH-CONV-124361%22

Global sea level has been persistently rising throughout the 20th century and is expected to continue this development in the future. Glaciers and ice caps outside the large ice shields of Greenland and Antarctica have been identified as important contributors to sea-level rise. However, to yield an...