Sentences with phrase «equilibrium line altitude»

Miller, G.H., Bradley, R.S. and Andrews, J.T., 1975: The glaciation level and lowest equilibrium line altitude in the High Canadian Arctic: maps and climatic interpretation.

Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire history.

From the head of the glacier at 1300 m to the mean Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA) at an elevation of 1050 - 1100 m the glacier flows northward.

The altitude separating the accumulation zone from the ablation zone is known as the equilibrium line altitude.

Not exact matches

Another factor that went into the analysis involved what's known as the equilibrium line — the altitude where the snow is neither piling up year to year nor shrinking.

To give another, more specific example, at a typical glacier on Mt. Baker, in Washington State, a summer temperature increase of 1 °C translates to a ~ 150 m increase in the altitude of the equilibrium line (the point where annual ice accumulation = annual loss), and a resulting ~ 2 km retreat of the glacier terminus.

Changes of the equilibrium - line altitude since the Little Ice Age in the Nepalese Himalaya.