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Status of the West Greenland Glacier Inventory 1980
Author(s) -
Anker Weidick
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v105.7759
Subject(s) - glacier , water balance , surface runoff , physical geography , hydrology (agriculture) , precipitation , glacier mass balance , greenland ice sheet , snow , ice calving , environmental science , geology , geography , meteorology , geomorphology , pregnancy , ecology , genetics , geotechnical engineering , lactation , biology
A first attempt at a regional assessment of water resources in West Greenland was made by Weidick & Olesen (1978, 1980) with compilation of a basin inventory. It comprises an identification and coding system together with basic physiographic parameters and estimates of water balance elements for a total of 870 basins lying between the west coast and the Inland Ice and extending up to latitude 71°N. A rough assessment of the total water balance of West Greenland (484000 km2) was made whereby 157 km3 of water are retained on the Inland Ice out of a total annual precipitation of 217 km3 , while the net ablation of the Inland Ice contributes about 60 km3 to the annual runoff and 97 km3 are lost due to calving.

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