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Author : Derikx, L.
Date : 1973
Title : Glacier discharge simulaiton by ground water analogue
Publication : Symposium on the Hydrology of Glaciers. Proceedings of the Symposium held at Cambridge, England, 7-13 September, 1969. International Association of Scientific Hydrology Publication
Issue : 95:
Page(s) : 29-40
Abstract
To simulate discharge from a glacier, the drainage basin is considered analogous to a groundwater system. The daily input into the system is precipitation and water from melting snow and ice computed from meteorological data. Outflow rates are computed by use of methods originally derived for nonsteady groundwater flow. The daily discharge of a glacial stream is the output of a system operating by the linearized boussinesq's equation with time-invariant boundary conditions. The parameter of the system is dependent on the type of glacier, time ofyear, climate, and probably the slope of the glacier surface. Data from Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada, for the ablation period 1968 were used to test the preliminary discharge-simulation model
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