of ice melt at the
AWS location will increase from c. 40 to c.
80 days.
Key words: glacier, mass balance, albedo, temperature, precipita-tion, precipitation, climate
IntroductionTo predict how a glacier will react to climate
change or to reconstruct a glacier’s mass balanceback in time, a mass balance model is needed to
relate the surface mass balance to prevailing cli-
mate conditions. A whole
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