| Summary: | The simple degree-day model distributes user-defined values of Mean Annual Temperature and Mean Annual Temperature Range over 365 days of the year. The model then calculates daily melt totals based on a user-defined degree-day factor.The model was used in Hughes (2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2010) and is similar to an approach presented in Brugger (2006). References: Brugger, K.A. (2006). Late Pleistocene climate inferred from the reconstruction of the Taylor River glacier complex, southern Sawatch Range, Colorado. Geomorphology 75, 318-329. Hughes, P.D. (2008) Response of a Montenegro glacier to extreme summer heatwaves in 2003 and 2007. Geografiska Annaler 90A, 259-267. Hughes, P.D. (2009) Loch Lomond Stadial (Younger Dryas) glaciers and climate in Wales. Geological Journal 44, 375-391. Hughes, P.D. (2009) Twenty-first Century Glaciers in the Prokletije Mountains, Albania. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 41, 455-459. Hughes, P.D. (2010) Little Ice Age glaciers in Balkans: low altitude glaciation enabled by cooler temperatures and local topoclimatic controls. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35, 229–241.
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