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importance of GlacioBasis monitoring tasks. The anticipated use of the monitoring data is
to model the surface energy balance and the glacier mass budget with physically based
models that, once calibrated and validated with in situ data, will allow to model the
response of the glacier to future climate change scenarios.
Figure 1 provides an overview and map of the investigated outlet glacier of the A.P.
Olsen ice cap. The position of the 14 ablation and displacement stakes is shown, together
with the position of the three AWS.
GlacioBasis is conceptually linked to the other monitoring programmes in the
Zackenberg river basin through the contribution of glacier melt water discharge to the
river, its regime and seasonality, and its impact on solutes and sediment fluxes to the sea.
Furthermore, the study site offers opportunities to extend investigations to the glacier
dammed lake on the eastern side of the studied outlet glacier (which is regarded as the
source of several floods recorded downstream in the past years), and to the formation of
superimposed ice, which is expected to be significant at this site.
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