A multi-season investigation of glacier surface roughness lengths through in situ and remote observation

Fitzpatrick, Noel; Radić, Valentina; Menounos, Brian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1051-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1051-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1051-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Research article

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02 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 02 Apr 2019

A multi-season investigation of glacier surface roughness lengths through in situ and remote observation

Noel Fitzpatrick, Valentina Radić, and Brian Menounos

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RC1: 'Review of Fitzpatrick et al. by Mark Smith', Mark Smith, 11 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of tc-2017-232', Maxime Litt, 14 Dec 2018
AC1: 'Response to Reviewer Comments', Noel Fitzpatrick, 20 Feb 2019

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AR by Noel Fitzpatrick on behalf of the Authors (22 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Mar 2019) by Tobias Bolch

AR by Noel Fitzpatrick on behalf of the Authors (20 Mar 2019)

Short summary

Measurements of surface roughness are rare on glaciers, despite being an important control for heat exchange with the atmosphere and surface melt. In this study, roughness values were determined through measurements at multiple locations and seasons and found to vary across glacier surfaces and to differ from commonly assumed values in melt models. Two new methods that remotely determine roughness from digital elevation models returned good performance and may facilitate improved melt modelling.