Université de Fribourg

Reanalysing glacier mass balance measurement series

Zemp, M. ; Thibert, E. ; Huss, Matthias ; Stumm, D. ; Denby, C. Rolstad ; Nuth, C. ; Nussbaumer, S. U. ; Moholdt, G. ; Mercer, A. ; Mayer, C. ; Joerg, P. C. ; Jansson, P. ; Hynek, B. ; Fischer, A. ; Escher-Vetter, H. ; Elvehøy, H. ; Andreassen, L. M.

In: The Cryosphere, 2013, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 1227-1245

Glacier-wide mass balance has been measured for more than sixty years and is widely used as an indicator of climate change and to assess the glacier contribution to runoff and sea level rise. Until recently, comprehensive uncertainty assessments have rarely been carried out and mass balance data have often been applied using rough error estimation or without consideration of errors. In this...