Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Albert, Todd Hayden
Author's Email Address	me@toddalbert.com
URN	etd-04092007-174614
Title	Assessing glacier mass balances from small tropical glaciers to the large ice sheet of Greenland
Degree	PhD
Department	Geography, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title James Elsner Committee Chair J. Anthony Stallins Committee Co-Chair Henry E. Fuelberg Committee Member Xiaojun Yang Committee Member
Keywords	Tropical Glaciers Arctic Polar Remote Sensing mass balance measurements Peru Quelccaya Ice Cap Greenland Ice Sheet glacier mass balances
Date of Defense	2007-03-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract A combination of field work, modeling, and remote sensing was used to determine mass balances for the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru and for parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet. A 40-year history of deglaciation on Quelccaya derived from satellite is presented. Automatic Weather Station and snow pit data throughout Greenland were utilized to determine a mass balance profile for the ice sheet which will serve as a baseline for future comparison. Finally, a series of models were tested in west-central Greenland for their ability to accurately simulate measured melt conditions given hourly observations of the surface meteorology. A new analytical melt model, SOSIM, was developed and tested for this study.
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