Systems - Accumulation, Ablation, and Glacier Response
Couple of points:
Lab will meet on Monday afternoon 2-5 from here on in.
Down the road we need to make plans for at least 1 all day trip (Sat or Sun).
The ELA is that line between new ablation and net accumulation.
Examples of the transition from accumulation area to ablation area on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
The wet side of a mountain range
Ablation Processes
Melting: example Fox Glacier, NZ, overview, close up
Burroughs Glacier 1973 and 1986
Total mass balance and facies
What Happens when the ELA Changes?
This is the point of the homework.
Figure 3-1 Chain of processes by Which the position of a glacier terminus is related to climate. (After M.F. Meier in H.E. Wright and Frey, eds., 1965a, p. 795.
Remember our discussion from the first week. The lower dashed line (not shown here is also quite important).
Thoughts on Question 2?
What approach will you use?
