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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5513-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5513-2021
Research article
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09 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2021

Aerodynamic roughness length of crevassed tidewater glaciers from UAV mapping

Armin Dachauer, Richard Hann, and Andrew J. Hodson

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This study investigated the aerodynamic roughness length (z0) – an important parameter to determine the surface roughness – of crevassed tidewater glaciers on Svalbard using drone data. The results point out that the range of z0 values across a crevassed glacier is large but in general significantly higher compared to non-crevassed glacier surfaces. The UAV approach proved to be an ideal tool to provide distributed z0 estimates of crevassed glaciers which can be used to model turbulent fluxes.