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The role of glaciers as sources of stream nutrients in a high mountain catchment

In the high mountain environments, streams often appear nutrient-limited. In glaciated catchments however, glacier meltwater acts as sources of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to downstream ecosystems, but research investigating t ...

2021

Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Daniela Brito Melo, Francesco Comola, Armin Sigmund, Koichi Nishimura

The influence of drifting and blowing snow on surface mass and energy exchange is difficult to quantify due to limitations in both measurements and models, but is still potentially very important over large areas with seasonal or perennial snow cover. We p ...

2021

Enhanced trace element mobilization by Earth's ice sheets

Tyler Joe Kohler

Trace elements sustain biological productivity, yet the significance of trace element mobilization and export in subglacial runoff from ice sheets is poorly constrained at present. Here, we present size-fractionated (0.02, 0.22, and 0.45 mu m) concentratio ...

2020

Carbon fluxes and productivity regimes in Alpine streams

Marta Boix Canadell

High-altitude catchments have a major role in the transport of organic matter to streams due to the storage of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soils and glacier ice and the subsequent mobilization during the melting processes. Yet, stream function goes b ...

EPFL2020

Recent patterns of discharge and sediment output of the Gorner Glacier, Switzerland

François Mettra

Recent climate change is causing rapid retreat of alpine glaciers around the globe. As ice melts and glaciers thin, glacier motion and subglacial processes will change. One of the most relevant aspects for down-valley environments, settlements and infrastr ...

2020

Glaciers are key components of the water towers of Asia and, as such, are relied upon by large downstream communities for domestic, agricultural and industrial uses. They store snow and ice during cold periods and release it as water during warm periods - ...

2020

Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice using OpenFOAM

Océane Hames

The remoteness and extreme conditions of the Arctic make it a very difficult environment to investigate. In these regions, the wind has a substantial effect and redistributes a large part of the snow which complicates precipitation estimates. Moreover, the ...

2020

Snow is one of the most active elements on the earth, which is an important mass source of polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers, as well as a main supply for the runoff. Its distribution and evolution have a great impact on global hydrological cycle, ecosy ...

2020

Bacterial carbon production in glacier-fed streams: a regional and spatiotemporal comparison

This study looks out bacterial carbon production (BCP) of 52 glacier fed streams from Greenland, New-Zealand, Russia and Switzerland. BCP is an important parameter to describe microbial communities in their environment. It reflects the capacity of the bact ...

2020

The SUBGLACIOR drilling probe: Hydraulic considerations

Jérôme Chappellaz

Trends of carbon monoxide (CO) for the past 100 years are reported as derived from Antarctic firn drilling expeditions. Only one of 3 campaigns provided high quality results. The trend was reconstructed using a firn air model in the forward mode to constra ...

Copernicus GmbH2020