Surface-layer turbulence, energy balance and links to atmospheric circulations over a mountain glacier in the French Alps

Litt, Maxime; Sicart, Jean-Emmanuel; Six, Delphine; Wagnon, Patrick; Helgason, Warren D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-971-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-971-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-971-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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18 Apr 2017

Research article |

| 18 Apr 2017

Surface-layer turbulence, energy balance and links to atmospheric circulations over a mountain glacier in the French Alps

Maxime Litt, Jean-Emmanuel Sicart, Delphine Six, Patrick Wagnon, and Warren D. Helgason

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee review for manuscript tc-2016-93', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 May 2016
- AC1: 'Response to comments by anonymous reviewer #1', Maxime Litt, 20 Aug 2016
RC2: 'Review tc-2016-93', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Jun 2016
- AC2: 'Response to comments by anonymous reviewer #2', Maxime Litt, 20 Aug 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Maxime Litt on behalf of the Authors (20 Aug 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Sep 2016) by Valentina Radic

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (22 Sep 2016)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (11 Oct 2016) by Valentina Radic

AR by Maxime Litt on behalf of the Authors (22 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Feb 2017) by Valentina Radic

AR by Maxime Litt on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Climate variations might change the frequency of typical weather conditions. We present a weather pattern classification as an useful tool for identifying changing glacier wind regimes. We show the intensity of turbulent heat exchanges between ice and air changes with these regimes, as well as the importance of discrepancies between bulk-aerodynamic and eddy-covariance fluxes. The results suggest these discrepancies influence melt estimates from surface energy balance calculations.