Ablation measurements are repeated in late September at the designated conclusion of the hydrologic year.
Ablation measurements are made at a minimum of six stakes on each glacier 20 - 50 points km2.
On Lemon Creek Glacier,
ablation measurements are completed each year in July.
Ablation measurements were made at a minimum of six stakes on each glacier.
Residual snow accumulation (final late snow balance: Mayo et al., 1972) at the end of the ablation season is determined using probing and crevasse stratigraphy on the same date as
ablation measurements are completed.
As applied to the Initiative, the enhanced sensitivity of the laser
ablation measurement approach will be harnessed for measuring stable isotope content of nanogram amounts of RNA samples.
There are at least three
ablation measurement sites on each glacier.
The most important ramification is that if the distribution and depth of the snowpack is known on June 1, than summer water resources can be estimated for a wide range of basins from a limited number of primary
ablation measurement sites.
Ablation measurement on nine North Cascade glaciers for twenty - nine discrete two to six week periods during this part of the ablation season yield mean ablation rates of 0.036 m / day, 0.038 m / day and 0.028 m / day for July, August and September respectively.
Not exact matches
Measurements of the
ablation - front trajectory and low - mode nonuniformity in direct - drive implosions using x-ray self - emission shadowgraphy
These include custom - built light sheet microscopy for single molecule and whole embryo
measurements, laser
ablation to perturb and dissect the architecture of microtubule structures, quantitative polarization microscopy, and new fluorescence correlation spectroscopy approaches.
Experimental approach: To use patient - specific induce pluripotent cell models from a (i) storage disease (NCL), (ii) aggregate prone disease (ALS) and (iii) a disease with no aggregates but hyperexcitability (ChAc) combined with state of the art live cell imaging techniques, electrophysiology and biophysical tools (PIV, laser
ablation for cortex tension
measurements, AFM).
Mass balance
measurements are made on the same date each year in August and again in late September close to the end of the
ablation season.
Measurements of
ablation are made at 3 - 6 locations and accumulation at 60 - 200 locations.
NCGCP (Pelto, 1996; Pelto and Riedel, 2001) and the USGS (Krimmel, 1998)
measurements on glaciers do provide a direct measure of
ablation in this elevation band at multiple locations over the last 20 years.
Ablation has been measured for periods of at least two weeks with on site temperature
measurement at numerous Snotel and glacier sites.
This glacier runoff is best determined by direct
measurement of
ablation on glaciers.
The North Cascade Glacier Climate Project (NCGCP), utilizes the highest density of
measurements 240 points / km2 in the accumulation zone and 10 points / km2 in the
ablation zone.
Measurements are made in late July and early August on Columbia Glacier, recording the
ablation during the first three months of the
ablation season, for water resource assessment purposes and redrilling of the stakes when necessary.
Measurements are made in late July and early August, recording the
ablation during the first three months of the
ablation season, for water resource assessment purposes and redrilling of the stakes when necessary.
Data from point
measurements are used to develop mathematical relationships between accumulation and
ablation and elevation.
Currently this
measurement network comprises about 10 snow pits and about 50
ablation stakes distributed across the glacier.
Measurements of
ablation are made in mid-summer and in late September - early October on each glacier.
We also need in situ
measurements in the GrIS's
ablation zone that can distinguish the relative contributions of different impurity types (e.g., black carbon, dust, algae) to albedo reduction as well as models that accurately simulate the GrIS surface energy balance and mass balance.