vertical mass balance gradient averaged over the entire
area of the glacier (a weighted average over the vertical range over which changes in the ice
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Memo
surface elevation take place), and H is a scale for the ice thickness, defined as the gradient
of volume changes to area changes, H = dV=
dA, and assumed to be approximately constant
over a substantial range in ice volume changes
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