Essays about: "Surface Mass Balance"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 33 essays containing the words Surface Mass Balance.

1. 6. Spatial Variability in Winter Balance on Storglaciären Modelled With a Coupled Terrain Based Approach

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Yoram Terleth; [2021]
   Keywords : mass balance; accumulation; snow transport; snow drift; avalanches; glaciology;

   Abstract : Although most processes governing the surface mass balance on mountain glaciers are well understood, the causes and extent of spatial variability in accumulation remain poorly constrained. In the present study, the EBFM distributed mass balance model is newly coupled to terrain based modelling routines estimating mass redistribution by snowdrift, preferential deposition, and avalanching (ST-EBFM) in order to model winter balance on Storglaciären, Sweden. READ MORE

3. 7. Detection of slush on the Greenland Ice Sheet using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Viktor Wu; [2020]
   Keywords : slush; Greenland Ice Sheet GrIS ; surface mass balance SMB ; sea level rise SLR ; satellite imagery; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Sea Level Rise (SLR) is a growing global concern that is heavily influenced by a warming climate. Because of a potentially large added mass to the ocean through ice melt, the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) plays an important role in the contribution to SLR. READ MORE

4. 8. Flotation of Yxsjöberg historical tungsten ore tailings

   University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Mineralteknik och metallurgi

   Author : Princess Rochelle Gan; [2019]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Tailings dams, due to their sheer size and metal content, pose safety and environmental hazards. The Småltjarnen repository, which hosts material from the largest known tungsten mineralization in Sweden named the Yxsjöberg deposit, is estimated to contain 2. READ MORE

5. 9. Cold Surface Layer Dynamics of Storglaciären, Northern Sweden 2009-2019

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Shunan Feng; [2019]
   Keywords : Storglaciären; cold surface layer; cold-temperate transition surface; polythermal glacier; Storglaciären; kallt ytskikt; kall-tempererad is; polyterrmal glaciär;

   Abstract : Storglaciären is a sub-Arctic polythermal glacier in northern Sweden. Twenty years' monitoring of thecold surface layer found that it has lost one third of its total volume of cold ice with an average thinningrate of 0.80 ± 0.24 m·a-1 for the period of 1989-2009. READ MORE

6. 10. Impact of different atmospheric forcings on surface mass balance estimates in Greenland

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Stina Olandersson; [2018]
   Keywords : Physical Geography and Ecosystem analysis; surface mass balance; Greenland; climate models; numerical weather prediction models; surface energy balance; Arctic; climate change; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The Greenland Ice sheet (GIS) is the second largest ice sheet on Earth and thus stores a large amount of Earths freshwater. Because of climate change and the Arctic amplification, GIS is experiencing changes and increased melt rates. The total mass budget determines the amount of sea level rise caused by input from freshwater from the GIS. READ MORE