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Author : Aryal, R.; Ainslie, B.; and Jackson, P.
Date : 2010.
Title : Modeling glacier mass balance in western Canada in response to future climate change using distributed glacier mass balance model.
Publication : CMOS-CGU Ottawa 2010. 44th Annual CMOS Congress, 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of CGU, 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress. May 31-June 4, 2010. Ottawa, Ontario.
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Glaciers in western Canada have a distinct trend of terminus retreat and mass loss which is mainly attributed to ongoing climate warming. As a tool for climate change impact studies on glaciers, we developed a Glacier Mass Balance (GMB) model for the southern Coast Mountains of western Canada. The model is fully distributed and based on energy balance principles. The model is forced with dynamically downscaled NARR (North American Regional Reanalysis) fields where the downscaling of NARR is achieved by using RAMS (Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) meso-scale model. The GMB model has been tested at Place glacier, one of the few glaciers in the region having long term mass balance record, and others in the region over the period from 1979 to 2008. We plan to apply the model for projecting future mass balance components in response to future climate change scenarios. Ensembles of climate change scenarios obtained from different GCMs and under different emission scenarios will be used to develop ensembles of future accumulation and melt.
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