Utility of late summer transient snowline migration rate on Taku Glacier, Alaska

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Author: M. Pelto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2011
• Subjects: geo; envir; Ela; Taku; glacier; glaciers; The Cryosphere; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-1127-2011; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/5/1127/2011/tc-5-1127-2011.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/05e4b8834e0341b48e26568c4ecc3919

On Taku Glacier, Alaska a combination of field observations of snow water equivalent (SWE) from snowpits and probing in the vicinity of the transient snowline (TSL) are used to quantify the mass balance gradient. The balance gradient derived from the TSL and SWE measured in snowpits at 1000 m from 1...