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A review of volume-area scaling of glaciers

open access: yesReviews of Geophysics, 2015
AbstractVolume‐area power law scaling, one of a set of analytical scaling techniques based on principals of dimensional analysis, has become an increasingly important and widely used method for estimating the future response of the world's glaciers and ice caps to environmental change.
Georg Kaser, W Tad Pfeffer, David B Bahr
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Regional and global volumes of glaciers derived from statistical upscaling of glacier inventory data [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, 2010
Very few global‐scale ice volume estimates are available for mountain glaciers and ice caps, although such estimates are crucial for any attempts to project their contribution to sea level rise in the future. We present a statistical method for deriving regional and global ice volumes from regional glacier area distributions and volume area scaling ...
Regine Hock, Valentina Radić
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Automated modelling of spatially-distributed glacier ice thickness and volume [PDF]

open access: yesComputers and Geosciences, 2016
Ice thickness distribution and volume are both key parameters for glaciological and hydrological applications. This study presents VOLTA (Volume and Topography Automation), which is a Python script tool for ArcGISTM that requires just a digital elevation model (DEM) and glacier outline(s) to model distributed ice thickness, volume and bed topography ...
William H. M. James, Jonathan Carrivick
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Recent volume loss of British Columbian glaciers, Canada

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2007
We use the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and digital terrain models from aerial photography to quantify the change of glacier volume in British Columbia (BC), Canada for the period 1985–1999. We note substantial elevation bias in the SRTM elevations, typically on the order of −12 m km−1. The bias‐corrected thinning rate is −0.78 ± 0.19 m
Brian Menounos
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An estimate of the glacier ice volume in the Swiss Alps

Global and Planetary Change, 2009
Abstract Changes in glacier volume are important for questions linked to sea-level rise, water resource management, and tourism industry. With the ongoing climate warming, the retreat of mountain glaciers is a major concern. Predictions of glacier changes, necessarily need the present ice volume as initial condition, and for transient modelling, the ...
Daniel Farinotti   +3 more
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