Bauder Andreas

Variations of Grosser Aletschgletscher

Project Number: ETHZ 12921
Project Type: Research_Project
Project Duration: 03/01/1918 - ?
Funding Source: ETH , BAFU , MeteoSwiss , other , SCNAT ,
Project Leader: Dr. Andreas Bauder
Glaziologie
Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, VAW
ETH Zürich
HIA D 52.2
Hönggerbergring 26
8093 Zürich
Phone: +41 (0)44 632 41 12 ; +41 (0) 44 632 40 91
FAX: +41 (0) 44 632 11 92
e-Mail: bauder(at)vaw.baug.ethz.ch
http://www.vaw.ethz.ch/

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Research Areas:
Cryosphere (Processes)
Natural science
High Altitude

Disciplines:
environmental sciences
hydrology, limnology, glaciology

Keywords:
Glaciology, Grosser Aletschgletscher, firn accumulation, mass balance, volume changes, Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network, hydrological method

Abstract:
Grosser Aletschgletscher - the largest glacier in the Alps - is by tradition a dominating research field of Swiss glaciologist and our laboratory in particular. Long-term glacier observation have been carried out to document glacier variations:
- Since the 1880's the length changes at the glacier tongue were recorded annually
- Starting in September 1918, the firn accumulation and mass balance was measured on Jungfraufirn. These are the second longest time series of in-situ stake measurements
Special high precision topographic maps covering the whole catchment area of the branched glacier system have been produced repeatedly in 1926/27 and 1957. The mass balance of the whole catchment area is evaluated with the hydrological method since the hydrological year 1922/23.
In an ongoing project the length, area, volume, and mass changes are continuously observed applying modern remote sensing techniques as well as direct field measurements. In order to calculate net volume changes of high spatial resolution, photogrammetrical results from two sets of recent aerial photographs for 1980, 1999 and 2009 were compared with the topograhical maps. The changes in mass on Jungfraufirn are continuously measured twice per year in spring after the accumulation season and in late summer after the ablation season. The variation of snow accumulation and melting is recorded monthly. Part of these investigations contribute to the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS - www.glamos.ch).

URL: https://www.rdb.ethz.ch/projects/project.php?proj_id=12921&type=search&z_detailed=1&z_popular=1&z_keywords=1

Publications:
Bauder, A., Funk, M. and Huss, M. (2007). Ice volume changes of selected glaciers in the Swiss Alps since the end of the 19th century. Annals of Glaciology, 46. link to article

Huss, M., Bauder, A., Funk, M. and Hock, R. (2008). Determination of the seasonal mass balance of four Alpine glaciers since 1865. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(F1), F01015, doi:10.1029/2007JF000803. link to article

Huss, M. and Bauder, A. (2009). 20th-century climate change inferred from four long-term point observations of seasonal mass balance. Annals of Glaciology, 50, 207-214. link to article





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