FW: Mass-balance glossary

[Jeffrey Kargel]

Dear GLIMS colleagues,
Please see the attached Mass Balance Glossary, prepared as an IACS document by the IACS Working Group on Mass Balance Terminology and Methods, and simply forwarded by me as a courtesy to GLIMS and the working group.  Please see that it is not a final document and is intended for community discussion.  If you have comments or suggestions, you may wish to bring those to the attention of a working group member (listed in Graham Cogley's message, below) and also Bruce Raup, who has led GLIMS development of terminology for our narrower purposes.   Please recall that GLIMS database terminology is designed specifically for our programmatic goals and does not in any way imply a conflict with this Glossary, if a conflict is perceived.  Also, note that there is a related informal session in Montreal at the end of the GLIMS miniworkshop on July 22.  Finally, I should acknowledge that the date of the GLIMS Miniworkshop and the following Mass Balance Terminology meeting has some conflicts with other MOCA-09 sessions, notably the session on Canada's cryosphere; several meeting planners each had many scheduling constraints to deal with, and this seemed the only possible date on which we could settle.
Sincerely,
Jeff Kargel   

From: gcogley1 at cogeco.ca
To: jeffreyskargel at hotmail.com
CC: braup at nsidc.org
Subject: Mas-balance glossary
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:21:33 -0400
















Jeff
– Here is the announcement for the GLIMS list, as discussed earlier.
Thanks for handling this, and best wishes, Graham.

 

Dear
colleagues,

 

We
are pleased to advise you of the release of Draft 3 of the new IACS Glossary
of Mass-balance and Related Terms, available as 

http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/mass_balance_glossary/massbalanceglossary.draft3.pdf
for public comment and discussion until 10 September 2009. The Glossary updates
and revises Anonymous (1969), hitherto the effective standard in mass-balance
terminology (Journal of Glaciology, 8(52), 3-7). Publication is
anticipated late in 2009.

 

The
new Glossary defines some 450 terms in the subject of mass balance or in
related areas. At its core are definitions of mass balance and its components,
but there are also many articles on such subjects as glacier zonation, glacier
surface features, types of glacier, and mass-balance modelling. Considerable
effort has gone into terms relating to ice-sheet mass balance. GLIMS project
members will find terms relating to geodetic and remote-sensing estimates of
mass balance particularly relevant. There is a substantial introduction,
placing the Glossary itself in context and including six tables of reference
data. Layout has not been finalized, and a number of diagrams and photos remain
to be added.

 

We
ask you to consider downloading Draft 3 and offering comments on it. If you are
attending MOCA-09 in Montreal, you will have an opportunity for discussion in
the form of a public meeting at 1530-1700h on Wednesday 22 July in Room 516a of
the Palais des Congrès. This comes between the end of the GLIMS session at
1500h and the start of the cryospheric barbeque at 1800h. Comments can also be
e-mailed to the Chair, gcogley at trentu.ca,
or to any other member of the IACS Working Group on Mass-balance Terminology
and Methods.

 

With
regards,

 

Anthony
Arendt, Andreas Bauder, Roger Braithwaite, Graham Cogley, Regine Hock, Peter
Jansson, Georg Kaser, Marco Möller, Lindsay Nicholson, Al Rasmussen and Michael
Zemp.

 

IACS
Working Group on Mass-balance Terminology and Methods http://www.cryosphericsciences.org/wg_mb.html

 

 

J.
Graham Cogley, Ph.D., Professor of Geography,

Department
of Geography, Trent University,

Peterborough,
Ontario, CANADA K9J 7B8.

 

Tel     
+1  705-748-1011-x7686

Fax    
+1  705-742-2131

Email 
gcogley at trentu.ca

Web   
http://www.trentu.ca/geography/glaciology/glaciology.htm

 


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