Sentences with phrase «forecast glacier mass»

To determine if these key climate indices could be useful for forecasting the glacier mass balance the mass balance records from North Cascade glaciers were correlated with two PDO and MEI (Bitz and Batisti 1999; Hodge et al., 1998; Pelto and Miller, 2003).

Not exact matches

In much the same way that the seasonal forecasts for the number of hurricanes is determined from a suite of indicators, this seems to be the most reasonable approach for glacier mass balance forecasting.

This years forecast issued May 1 is for negative glacier mass balance.

With more than twenty years of glaciers from ten different glaciers we have tested a forecasting tool for glacier mass balance.