The effect of impurities on the surface melt of a glacier in the Suntar Khayata Mountain Range, Russian Siberia

The effect of impurities on the surface melt of a glacier in the Suntar Khayata Mountain Range, Russian Siberia

We investigated characteristics of impurities and their impact on the ablation of Glacier No.31 in the Suntar-Khayata Mountain Range in Russian Siberia during summer 2014. Positive degree-day factors (PDDFs) obtained from 20 stake measurements distributed across the glacier’s ablation area varied fr...

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Main Authors: Nozomu eTakeuchi, Yuta eFujisawa, Tsutomu eKadota, Sota eTanaka, Masaya eMiyairi, Tatsuo eShirakawa, Ryo eKusaka, Alexander N Fedorov, Pavel eKonstantinov, Tetsuo eOhata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
Siberia
glaciers
Snow algae
light absorbing impurity
positive degree-day factor
Suntar Khayata
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2015.00082/full

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