Assertion: glacier's mass balance | /r/HasProperty | smb
Facets:
value: minus ice discharge
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: We use improved annual time series of ice sheet velocity, updated ice thickness, modeled reconstructions of surface mass balance (SMB), revised drainage inventories, and high-resolution topography to assess the continental ice discharge of 18 regions that include a total of 176 basins, plus the surrounding islands (Fig. 1 and SI Appendix, Fig. S1).
text: Because glacier extent responds to changes in the glacier mass balance (MB) with a lag of decades to centuries (12–14), glaciers provide an opportunity to directly perceive long-term climate change, unobscured by interannual variability.
text: Consistent with low to moderate surface melting, the April 2016-April 2017 surface mass balance (SMB) year along the K-transect at 67° N in West Greenland (van de Wal et al., 2012) was characterized by moderate ice loss over the ablation region.
text: Surface mass balance (SMB) captures snow fall, surface melt, water runoff, and other forcings that control the mass balance at the surface of glacier ice.
text: As I pointed out the other day, the surface mass balance (SMB) in Greenland has increased way above the long term average for the second year running.
text: The daily surface mass balance (smb) of the ice sheet is also presented and compared with the long term average to indicate what the ice sheet surface mass balance
text: Mass balance, dM/dt, is SMB minus ice discharge D.