Abstract
Daily ice ablation on two outlet glaciers from the Greenland ice sheet, Nordbogletscher (1979-83) and Qamanarssup sermia (1980-86), is related to air temperature by a linear regression equation. Analysis of this ablation-temperature equation with the help of a simple energy-balance model shows that sensible-heat flux has the greatest temperature response and accounts for about one-half of the temperature response of ablation. Net radiation accounts for about one-quarter of the temperature response of ablation, and latent-heat flux and errors account for the remainder. -from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 217-221 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Glaciology |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 123 |
| Publication status | Published - 1990 |