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07 Dec 2015
Research article |
| 07 Dec 2015
Debris-covered glacier energy balance model for Imja–Lhotse Shar Glacier in the Everest region of Nepal
Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
D. J. Quincey
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
D. C. McKinney
Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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Short summary
A debris-covered glacier energy balance was used to model debris temperatures and sub-debris ablation rates on Imja-Lhotse Shar Glacier during the 2014 melt season. Field measurements were used to assess model performance. A novel method was also developed using Structure from Motion to estimate the surface roughness. Lastly, the effects of temporal resolution, i.e., 6h and daily time steps, and various methods for estimating the latent heat flux were also investigated.
A debris-covered glacier energy balance was used to model debris temperatures and sub-debris...
