1: Literature

Question 1

What is happening to the mass balances of the glaciers in Northern Alaska according to (Authors) and why?

Answer 1

Increasingly negative mass balances due to increasing summer temperatures (Dowdeswell et al, 1997)

Question 2

What is happening to the mass balances of the glaciers in maritime Scandinavia and Iceland according to (Authors) and why?

Answer 2

Increasingly positive mass balances due to winter precipitation (Dowdeswell et al, 1997)

Question 3

What is the general trend of mass balance in the arctic according to (Authors)?

Answer 3

Negative mass balance (Dowdeswell et al, 1997)

Question 4

What has been happening to the mass balance of the glaciers in Svalbard between 1950 and 1988? (Author)

Answer 4

Steadily decreasing (Hagen and Liestøl, 1990)

Question 5

According to (Author), if either ___ or ___ occurred, then zero net balance would be obtained for the glaciers studied in Svalbard.

Answer 5

Temperature drop by 1degC or increase in winter precipitation by 50% (Hagen and Liestøl, 1990)

Question 6

What is the name of the two main glaciers studied by (Authors) in Svalbard? SPELLING?

Answer 6

Lovenbreen and Brøggerbreen (Hagen and Liestøl, 1990)

Question 7

(Authors) found that superimposed ice was ___ % of accumulation/ablation on the two main Svalbard glaciers studied?

Answer 7

10-30% of accumulation (Hagen and Liestøl, 1990)

Question 8

What is the approximate net balance (in cm) for the two main Svalbard glaciers studied by (Authors)?

Answer 8

~40cm of net ablation (Hagen and Liestøl, 1990)