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Calculated patterns of accumulation on the Greenland ice sheet: comments on Mr S. J. Mock’s paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

A. Bauer
A. Bauer*
Affiliation:
Centre d'Études Glaciologiques des Régions Arctiques et Antarctiques, Face au 22, Quai Carnot, 92–Saint–Cloud, France
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 7 , Issue 51 , 1968 , pp. 517
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1968

The Editor, Journal of Glaciology

Sir,

The method of analysing accumulation measurements employed by Reference MockMock (1967) resulted in a map with curves of equal accumulation for the Greenland ice sheet. This analytical method represents a considerable advance over previously available data (Reference BaderBader, 1961). Despite the legitimate reservations expressed by the author, I nevertheless suspect that such a map is intended for the determination of total accumulation for the accumulation zone of the ice sheet.

I have made such a calculation by measuring the areas of equal accumulation with a planimeter for the accumulation zone of the Greenland ice sheet,a zone which I have defined elsewhere (Reference BaderBauer, [1956], Reference Bauer1966). The map at my disposal was of small scale, so that my calculation only gives the order of magnitude. For an accumulation area of 1 471 800 km2, the sum of the partial accumulations is 480 km3 water equivalent; the mean accumulation deduced from this is 32 g cm−2, or somewhat smaller than the values assumed by other authors.

4 December 1967

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