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Creator:: Ourada, Quin
Abstract:: The net mass balance fluctuations of Arctic and Sub-Arctic glaciers, north of 47.5° North latitude, are described over a 45-year period from 1957 to 2002 using two parameters derived from a gridded climatology reanalysis. Variability among 185 measured glaciers was represented according to two main components. The first component represents...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ Anne W. Nolin The net mass balance fluctuations of Arctic and Sub-Arctic glaciers, north of

Creator:: McDonald, Gregory D. (Gregory Douglas), 1962-
Abstract:: A change to a warmer, drier climate beginning as early as 1900 was responsible for triggering a dramatic, rapid retreat of Collier Glacier, Oregon, between 1924 and 1940. Although there was a dramatic decrease in precipitation contemporaneous with this observed "step-function" response of mass loss, it is unclear if climate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Freiherr von Schwerin, Claudius
Abstract:: Mass transfer processes were evaluated in an artificial, non-uniform porous medium with a power law distribution of diffusion rate coefficients obtained from physical characterization of solute and porous medium. Breakthrough curves of several pulse experiments conducted at different velocities were compared (1) to analytical expressions for concentrations at mass transfer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Medium: Implications of Diffusive Mass Transfer on the Late-Time Breakthrough Behavior by Claudius

Creator:: Anslow, Faron S.
Abstract:: This thesis presents the results of an investigation into the interactions between the present-day South Cascade Glacier and the former Mauna Kea ice cap at short (annual to centennial) and long (millennial and multimillennial) time scales. To quantify the response of South Cascade Glacier to atmospheric conditions, a surface energy...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the mass balance of South Cascade Glacier and is shown to faithfully simulate ablation on all time

Creator:: Medley, Brooke
Abstract:: An integrative method for monitoring glacier geometry change and mass balance is presented and applied to the Pacific Northwest, USA. Acting as a baseline for interpretation of future changes in glacier size and shape, we first derive a new inventory of regional glacier cover using remotely sensed data. To investigate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: glacier retreat might impact the magnitude of mass wasting event as a substantial volume of loose debris

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