Glacier Response to Climate Change: Modeling the Effects of Weather and Debris-Cover

• Main Author: Anderson, Leif S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2014
• Subjects: Climate change; Debris cover; Glacier Modeling; Glaciers; Interannual climate variability; Numerical Modeling; Climate; Geomorphology; Glaciology; Long Valley; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geol_gradetds/90; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=geol_gradetds

Glaciers change length in response to fluctuations in climate. In addition, atmospheric and geomorphic processes modulate glacier response to climate change. These factors must be explored in detail to understand glacier response. I engage two factors modulating glacier response: 1) the effect of ye...