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ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY
卷 55, 期 66, 页码 69-80出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3189/2014AoG66A104
关键词
accumulation; climate change; glacier mass balance; glacier modelling
资金
- IFCPAR/CEFIPRA [3900-W1]
- French Service d'Observation GLACIOCLIM
- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- IRD
This study presents a reconstruction of the mass balance (MB) of Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya, India, and discusses the regional climatic drivers responsible for its evolution since 1969. The MB is reconstructed by a temperature-index and an accumulation model using daily airtemperature and precipitation records from the nearest meteorological station, at Bhuntar Observatory. The only adjusted parameter is the altitudinal precipitation gradient. The model is calibrated against 10 years of annual altitudinal MB measurements between 2002 and 2012 and decadal cumulative MBs between 1988 and 2010. Three periods were distinguished in the MB series. Periods I (1969-85) and III (2001-12) show significant mass loss at MB rates of -0.36 +/- 0.36 and -0.57 +/- 0.36 m w.e.a(-1) respectively, whereas period II (1986-2000) exhibits steady-state conditions with average MBs of -0.01 +/- 0.36 m w.e.a(-1). The comparison among these three periods suggests that winter precipitation and summer temperature are almost equally important drivers controlling the MB pattern of Chhota Shigri glacier at decadal scale. The sensitivity of the modelled glacier-wide MB to temperature is -0.52 m w.e.a(-1) degrees C-1 whereas the sensitivity to precipitation is calculated as 0.16 m w.e.a(-1) for a 10% change.
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