Drainage-system development in consecutive melt seasons at a polythermal, Arctic glacier, evaluated by flow-recession analysis and linear-reservoir simulation

• Published in: Water Resources Research
• Main Authors: Hodgkins, Richard, Cooper, Richard, Tranter, Martyn, Wadham, Jemma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; drainage; glacier; polythermal; recession; reservoir; Finsterwalderbreen; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/drainagesystem-development-in-consecutive-melt-seasons-at-a-polythermal-arctic-glacier-evaluated-by-flowrecession-analysis-and-linearreservoir-simulation(1ccbea88-fd81-40e9-b921-226259436b14).html; https://doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20257

The drainage systems of polythermal glaciers play an important role in high-latitude hydrology, and are determinants of ice flow rate. Flow-recession analysis and linear-reservoir simulation of runoff time series are here used to evaluate seasonal and inter-annual variability in the drainage system...