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GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES A-PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Volume 97, Issue 4, Pages 809-817Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/geoa.12115
Keywords
glacier; snow accumulation; winter balance; topography; Dickson Land; Svalbard
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- Polish National Science Centre [N306 062940]
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One of the main controls on the net mass change of land-terminating Arctic glaciers is the magnitude and distribution of snow accumulation. In Dickson Land, region of Svalbard with the greatest distance to the sea, the issue has not been receiving much scientific attention for decades. In this paper, new snow accumulation data are presented from Svenbreen in Dickson Land from end-of-winter surveys. The measured winter balance was 0.42 +/- 0.15 m w.e. in 2010, 0.50 +/- 0.10 m w.e. in 2011 and 0.62 +/- 0.10 cm w.e. in 2012. Snow depth and water equivalent have been analysed in the background of altitude, slope and aspect extracted from the digital elevation model of the glacier. On steep northern slopes (> 15 degrees) accumulation was the highest, whereas it was decreased on southern slopes with moderate inclination (9-12 degrees). Elevation, which on many glaciers proved to be highly correlated with snow depth, explained only 17-34% of snow depth variability due to complex interplay between local climate and geometry of a small valley.
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