Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2211-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2211-2018
Technical note
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09 Apr 2018
Technical note |  | 09 Apr 2018

Technical note: Representing glacier geometry changes in a semi-distributed hydrological model

Jan Seibert, Marc J. P. Vis, Irene Kohn, Markus Weiler, and Kerstin Stahl

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In many glacio-hydrological models glacier areas are assumed to be constant over time, which is a crucial limitation. Here we describe a novel approach to translate mass balances as simulated by the (glacio)hydrological model into glacier area changes. We combined the Δh approach of Huss et al. (2010) with the bucket-type model HBV and introduced a lookup table approach, which also allows periods with advancing glaciers to be represented, which is not possible with the original Huss method.