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<span class="remove_this_tag"> | <span class="remove_this_tag">Valley glacier moraines are commonly used to infer past mean | ||
annual precipitation and mean melt-season temperature. However, recent research has demonstrated that, even in steady climates, multi-decadal, kilometer-scale fluctuations in glacier length occur in response to stochastic, year-to-year variability in mass balance. When interpreting moraine sequences it is important to include the effect of interannual weather variability on glacier length; moraines record advances that are forced either by interannual variability or by a combination of climate change and interannual variability. </span> | |||
==Objectives== | ==Objectives== | ||
<span class="remove_this_tag"> | <span class="remove_this_tag">1) Assess the importance of year-to-year climate variability (weather) on glacier length in a variety of climate settings | ||
2) Create quantitative metrics to test if a glacier length change could be caused by weather variability. | |||
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==Time-line== | ==Time-line== | ||
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==Models in use== | ==Models in use== | ||
<span class="remove_this_tag"> | <span class="remove_this_tag">We are using 1 and 2D Matlab-based numerical glacier models. </span> | ||
==Results== | ==Results== |
Revision as of 10:49, 3 October 2014
Interannual variability and glacier length
Project description
Valley glacier moraines are commonly used to infer past mean annual precipitation and mean melt-season temperature. However, recent research has demonstrated that, even in steady climates, multi-decadal, kilometer-scale fluctuations in glacier length occur in response to stochastic, year-to-year variability in mass balance. When interpreting moraine sequences it is important to include the effect of interannual weather variability on glacier length; moraines record advances that are forced either by interannual variability or by a combination of climate change and interannual variability.
Objectives
1) Assess the importance of year-to-year climate variability (weather) on glacier length in a variety of climate settings 2) Create quantitative metrics to test if a glacier length change could be caused by weather variability.
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We are using 1 and 2D Matlab-based numerical glacier models.
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