我正在尝试了解如何使用累积面积比方法获得ELA。我的理解是:
现在，有了AARo和冰川总面积，我如何获得ELA?< / p >
First, AAR, relates the area occupied by the accumulation area to the total area by the glacier. The accumulation area is by definition the area showing a surplus of mass by the end of the season. This means that the snow falling during the year survives the melt season. Hence we relate the total area of the glacier to the area experiencing a net surplus of mass at the end of the mass balance year to yield a percentage value indicating what percentage of the glacier is experiencing a surplus.
The area experiencing surplus of mass is defined as the accumulation area and the area experiencing a deficit of mass is defined as the ablation area. On any glacier, the line separating the areas of surplus and deficit of mass is defined as the equilibrium line. This means that the total mass gain equals the mass loss along this line and on each side there will be a net gain or loss of mass.
The equilibrium line will ideally divide the glacier into two areas experiencing net total mass loss and mass gain, respectively. Because mass gain is commonly occuring at higher altitude and mass losses occuring at lower altitudes due to snow distribution and the decrease of temperature and hence melting with altitude, areas of mass loss occur at lower elevation while areas of mass gain occurs at higher elevation.
The equilibrium line altidude (ELA) is usuually a calculated entity dependent on where the net balance curve of the glacier crosses the zero balance, i.e. the altitude where the glacier net balance changes sign or goes from loss to gain or vice versa.
Based on this we can see that ELA and AAR are related but calculated in different ways from the same original data. AAR is simply the relationship between the area of positive and negative mass change whereas the ELA is the altitude where the elevation dependent mass balance turns from postive to negative or vice versa.
References
[Cogley et al., 2011] [1]
[Kaser et al. 2003] [2]
[1] https://wgms.ch/downloads/Cogley_etal_2011.pdf
[2] https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000129593.locale=en