A study of ablation variations on the tongue of Hintereisferner, Austrian Alps

R. S.W. Van De Wal, J. Oerlemans, J. C. Van Der Hage

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Abstract

In the summer of 1989 a glacio-meteorological experiment was carried out on Hintereisferner, Austria. At all stakes the albedo was measured several times with a simple light-weight instrument (described separately in the Appendix). The absorption of solar radiation was calculated for all stake positions, taking into account local albedo, slope, aspect and shading effects. It appears that the differences in ablation can be explained almost entirely by the differences in surface albedo, both along and across the glacier tongue. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)319-324
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Glaciology
Volume38
Issue number130
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1992

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