A first attempt to model region-wide glacier surface mass balances in the Karakoram: findings and future challenges, supplementary material
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| author | Groos, Alexander Raphael Mayer, Christoph Smiraglia, Claudio Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Lambrecht, Astrid |
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| contents | In contrast to the central and eastern part of High Mountain Asia (HMA), no extensive glacier mass loss has been observed in the Karakoram during previous decades. However, the potential meteorological and glaciological causes of the so-called Karakoram Anomaly are manifold and still under debate. This paper introduces and presents a novel glacier Surface Mass Balance Model (glacierSMBM) to test whether the characteristic regional mass balance pattern can be reproduced using recent field, remote-sensing and reanalysis data as input. A major advantage of the model setup is the implementation of the non-linear effect of supra-glacial debris on the sub-surface ice melt. In addition to a first assessment of the annual surface mass balance from 1st August 2010 until 31st July 2011, a sensitivity analysis was performed to investigate the response of Karakoram glaciers to recent climate change and to identify meteorological and glaciological processes that promote stable mass balances. The mean glacier mass balance for the Karakoram during the observation period is -0.92 m w.e. a-1 and corresponds to an annual melt water contribution of ~12.66 km3. Data inaccuracies and the neglected process of snow redistribution from adjacent slopes in the accumulation area are probably responsible for the negative bias in the model output. Despite the general offset between mass gain and mass loss, the model captures the characteristic features of the anomaly and indicates that positive glacier mass balances are mainly restricted to the central and northeastern part of the mountain range. From the evaluation of the sensitivity analysis it can be concluded that the complex glacier response in the Karakoram is not the result of a single driver, but related to a variety of regional peculiarities such as the favourable meteorological conditions, the extensive supra-glacial debris and the timing of the main precipitation season. |
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| spellingShingle | A first attempt to model region-wide glacier surface mass balances in the Karakoram: findings and future challenges, supplementary material Groos, Alexander Raphael Mayer, Christoph Smiraglia, Claudio Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Lambrecht, Astrid File content; File format; File name; File size; Karakoram; MULT; Multiple investigations; Uniform resource locator/link to file In contrast to the central and eastern part of High Mountain Asia (HMA), no extensive glacier mass loss has been observed in the Karakoram during previous decades. However, the potential meteorological and glaciological causes of the so-called Karakoram Anomaly are manifold and still under debate. This paper introduces and presents a novel glacier Surface Mass Balance Model (glacierSMBM) to test whether the characteristic regional mass balance pattern can be reproduced using recent field, remote-sensing and reanalysis data as input. A major advantage of the model setup is the implementation of the non-linear effect of supra-glacial debris on the sub-surface ice melt. In addition to a first assessment of the annual surface mass balance from 1st August 2010 until 31st July 2011, a sensitivity analysis was performed to investigate the response of Karakoram glaciers to recent climate change and to identify meteorological and glaciological processes that promote stable mass balances. The mean glacier mass balance for the Karakoram during the observation period is -0.92 m w.e. a-1 and corresponds to an annual melt water contribution of ~12.66 km3. Data inaccuracies and the neglected process of snow redistribution from adjacent slopes in the accumulation area are probably responsible for the negative bias in the model output. Despite the general offset between mass gain and mass loss, the model captures the characteristic features of the anomaly and indicates that positive glacier mass balances are mainly restricted to the central and northeastern part of the mountain range. From the evaluation of the sensitivity analysis it can be concluded that the complex glacier response in the Karakoram is not the result of a single driver, but related to a variety of regional peculiarities such as the favourable meteorological conditions, the extensive supra-glacial debris and the timing of the main precipitation season. |
| title | A first attempt to model region-wide glacier surface mass balances in the Karakoram: findings and future challenges, supplementary material |
| topic | File content; File format; File name; File size; Karakoram; MULT; Multiple investigations; Uniform resource locator/link to file |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880279 |