TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horst Machguth
AU  - Jason E. Box
AU  - W. Tad Pfeffer
AU  - Robert S. Fausto
AB  - Melt takes place where the surface of glaciers or ice sheets interacts with the atmosphere. While the processes governing surface melt are fairly well understood, the pathways of the meltwater, from its origin to the moment it leaves a glacier system, remain enigmatic. It is not even guaranteed that meltwater leaves a glacier or ice sheet. On Greenland, for example, only slightly more than 50% of the meltwater runs off. The remainder mostly refreezes within the so-called firn cover of the ice sheet. This eBook contains 11 studies which tackle the challenge of understanding meltwater retention in snow and firn from various angles. The studies focus both on mountain glaciers and on the Greenland ice sheet and address challenges such as measuring firn properties, quantifying their influence on meltwater retention, modelling firn processes and meltwater refreezing as well as unravelling the mechanisms within the recently discovered Greenland firn aquifers.
DO  - 10.3389/978-2-88945-619-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 32017
KW  - firn
KW  - regional climate model
KW  - expert elicitation
KW  - refreezing
KW  - mass balance
KW  - Meltwater retention
KW  - snow
KW  - Greenland firn aquifer
KW  - glacier and ice sheet
KW  - sea level rise
L1  - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4880/melt-water-retention-processes-in-snow-and-firn-on-ice-sheets-and-glaciers-observations-and-modeling
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53082
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9782889456192
TI  - Melt Water Retention Processes in Snow and Firn on Ice Sheets and Glaciers: Observations and Modelingnull
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