@ARTICLE{Szafraniec_Joanna_Influence_2002,
 author={Szafraniec, Joanna},
 volume={vol. 23},
 number={No 3-4},
 journal={Polish Polar Research},
 pages={227-240},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2002},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences},
 publisher={Committee on Polar Research},
 abstract={The results of a statistical analysis of the influence of the Hansbreen surface ablation relative to selectedmeteorological parameters (air temperature andsunshine duration) are presentedhere. Over the period1989 –2001 the lowest summer balance on the surface ablation of Hansbreen was recorded in 1994 (–0.56 m water equivalent). Concurrently, both the air temperature (mean seasonal ~2.3 °C) and the sunshine duration (seasonal sum ~278.9 h)were at their lowest. Owing to the relatively high sunshine duration (676.5 h),the highest values were in 1998 (–1.71 m w.e.); likewise,in 2001 (–1.84 m w.e.) when a high air temperature (mean of 3.6 °C) occurred. The statistical models erected on the basis of these data allow us to estimate fairly reliably the seasonal ablation of Hansbreen. The basis of these is the reasonably reliable relationship determinable between the seasonal sum of PDD (positive degree days) and the ablation intensity changes in respect of altitude above sea level. Sunshine duration is regarded here as being of very little significance in terms of increasing the accuracy of the models. The errors inherent in this models varies from 28% to as little as 7%. Shown models may eventually find application as a method of calculating the amount of water resulting from the decay of tidewater glaciers.},
 type={Article},
 title={Influence of positive degree-days and sunshine duration on the surface ablation of Hansbreen, Spitsbergen glacier},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/110707/PDF-MASTER/ppr23-227.pdf},
 keywords={Antarctic, Spitsbergen, Hansbreen, surface ablation, sum of PDD},
}