Sentences with phrase «ablation stakes»

Currently this measurement network comprises about 10 snow pits and about 50 ablation stakes distributed across the glacier.

Ablation stakes are used to measure the amount of firn and ice lost beneath the previous winter's snowpack.

Ablation stakes made of plywood strips 10 - cm wide and marked with alternating black and white 10 - cm squares are planted in the ice near the buoy to indicate visually the amount of surface melting as the summer proceeds.

Ablation stakes were white wooden poles, 3.3 m long.

Thus, individual ablation stakes will be used in future years.

Annual ice and firn ablation (firn and ice net balance: Mayo et al., 1972) is determined using ablation stakes drilled into the glacier surface and simultaneously checked on the same date in late September.

This estimate is based on the standard deviation in ablation along 50 m long transects with ablation stakes placed 5 m apart.

Ablation stakes are white wooden poles 3.3 m long.

Not exact matches

Revisiting each site through the ablation season and measuring the emergence of each stake identifies the ablation rate.

Ablation is measured by emplacing stakes in the glacier at the end of the previous melt season or the beginning of the melt season.

Each program monitors ablation during specific time periods using stakes emplaced in the glacier surface.

An ablation triangle consists of three stakes driven or drilled into the ice at 3 m spacing forming an equilateral triangle.

Ablation measurements were made at a minimum of six stakes on each glacier.

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.

Ablation measurements are made at a minimum of six stakes on each glacier 20 - 50 points km2.