Effects of local advection on the spatial sensible heat flux variation on a mountain glacier

Sauter, Tobias; Galos, Stephan Peter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2887-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2887-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2887-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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24 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 24 Nov 2016

Effects of local advection on the spatial sensible heat flux variation on a mountain glacier

Tobias Sauter and Stephan Peter Galos

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RC1: 'Referee review for manuscript: tc-2016-139, under review for The Cryosphere', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Author responses to reviewer 1', Tobias Sauter, 21 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Interactive comments on the manuscript tc-2016-139', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Author responses to reviewer 2', Tobias Sauter, 21 Sep 2016

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AR by Tobias Sauter on behalf of the Authors (26 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Oct 2016) by Valentina Radic

Short summary

The paper deals with the micrometeorological conditions on mountain glaciers. We use idealized large-eddy simulations to study the heat transport associated with the local wind systems and its impact on the energy exchange between atmosphere and glaciers. Our results demonstrate how the sensible heat flux variablility on glaciers is related to topographic effects and that the energy surplus is strong enough to significantly increase the local glacier melting rates.