glacierArea_RGIF: Calculates glacier area based on glacier volume

In hydrosolutions/riversCentralAsia: Accompanying R Package to Applied Modeling of Hydrological Systems in Central Asia Course

Calculates glacier area based on glacier volume

Description

Scaling relationships derived from the RGI v6.0 region 13 data set, combined with the glacier thickness derived by Farinotti et al. 2019.

Usage

glacierArea_RGIF(volume_km3)

Arguments

volume_km3

glacier volume in km3

Details

Assuming a normal distribution of the residuals, the relative uncertainty of the volume estimate is given as 2 times the standard deviation of the relative residuals which is equal to 53 error estimation likely underestimates the actual uncertainty.

Value

glacier area in km2

Source

RGI v6.0 <https://www.glims.org/RGI/>, Farinotti et al., 2019 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0300-3>

See Also

[glacierVolume_RGIF], [glacierArea_Erasov]

Other Glacier functions: ErazovsGlacierFunction(), glacierAreaVolume_Aizen(), glacierArea_Erasov(), glacierMelt_TI(), glacierVolume_Erasov(), glacierVolume_RGIF()

Examples

  V_km3 <- c(0.1, 1, 10)
  A_km2 <- glacierArea_RGIF(V_km3)

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