< p >液态水可以存储在冰川和冰川环境几个方面。随着冰雪融化水可以暂时存储存储在冰川裂缝或相当于地下水的渗透积雪和冰川积雪。这样的水是缓慢释放,虽然突然释放也知道,在冰冻的季节。此外,在冰川沉积物,还储存地下水在冷冻期间公布。总之,这被称为“基流”水文。根据大小和疏散速度,流能持续整个冬季。< / p > < p >有因素影响这种行为。一般情况下上述担忧所谓的温和的冰川。冰川在很高海拔和纬度可能完全低于冰点。在环境中也可能永久冻土。在这种情况下可以非常小的存储卷和冬季流可能完全停止一段时间后。< / p > < p >一小部分的水也可以生成来自地热的融化。 If the glacier is temperate at the bed the heat flux will provide energy to generate melt. A simple calculation based on typical continental geothermal heat fluxes show that the energy is sufficient to melt millimetres to a centimetre of basal ice. Consider that this melting occurs during the course for a year and the volume of water will be the melt rate multiplied by the basal ice-ground contact area of the glacier and the numbers will show that the runoff will be minuscule. Hence such contributions are generally not comparable to those produced by the "base flow" from ground and glacier aquifers. The following paper provides a thorough description of storage of water in glaciers:
Jansson, P., Hock, R. and Schneider, T., 2003. The concept of glacier storage -- A review. Journal of Hydrology. 282 (1-4), 116-129.
A large volume of literature on glacier hydrology and runoff can be found in Journal of Glaciology.