A number of papers have examined the relationship of Pacific
Northwest glacier mass balance to atmospheric circulation indices (McCabe and Fountain, 1995; Hodge et al., 1998; Bitz and Battisti, 1999; Pelto and Miller, 2001).
This tendency for small alpine
glaciers in the Pacific
Northwest to have different
mass balance histories, yet high cross correlation coefficients was previously noted by Letreguilly (1989).