Positive degree-day sums in the Alps: a direct link between glacier melt and international climate policy
Annual balances of eight alpine glaciers were slightly negative for 1961–90 and highly negative for 1991–2018. We explain this by changes in positive degree-day sums and summer temperatures extrapolated to the median altitudes of the glaciers. We test a new way of calculating degree-day sums that pe...
Main Authors: | Roger J. Braithwaite, Philip D. Hughes |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Glaciology |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143021001404/type/journal_article |
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