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Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-549-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-549-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
Research article
 | 
12 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2020

Surface melt and the importance of water flow – an analysis based on high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data for an Arctic glacier

Eleanor A. Bash and Brian J. Moorman

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High-resolution measurements from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery allowed for examination of glacier melt model performance in detail at Fountain Glacier. This work capitalized on distributed measurements at 10 cm resolution to look at the spatial distribution of model errors in the ablation zone. Although the model agreed with measurements on average, strong correlation was found with surface water. The results highlight the contribution of surface water flow to melt at this location.
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