{"article_type":"original","volume":15,"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021","open_access":"1"}],"extern":"1","day":"09","quality_controlled":"1","date_updated":"2023-02-28T12:58:27Z","intvolume":"        15","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Near-surface air temperature (Ta) is highly important for modelling glacier ablation, though its spatio-temporal variability over melting glaciers still remains largely unknown. We present a new dataset of distributed Ta for three glaciers of different size in the south-east Tibetan Plateau during two monsoon-dominated summer seasons. We compare on-glacier Ta to ambient Ta extrapolated from several local off-glacier stations. We parameterise the along-flowline sensitivity of Ta on these glaciers to changes in off-glacier temperatures (referred to as “temperature sensitivity”) and present the results in the context of available distributed on-glacier datasets around the world. Temperature sensitivity decreases rapidly up to 2000–3000 m along the down-glacier flowline distance. Beyond this distance, both the Ta on the Tibetan glaciers and global glacier datasets show little additional cooling relative to the off-glacier temperature. In general, Ta on small glaciers (with flowline distances <1000 m) is highly sensitive to temperature changes outside the glacier boundary layer. The climatology of a given region can influence the general magnitude of this temperature sensitivity, though no strong relationships are found between along-flowline temperature sensitivity and mean summer temperatures or precipitation. The terminus of some glaciers is affected by other warm-air processes that increase temperature sensitivity (such as divergent boundary layer flow, warm up-valley winds or debris/valley heating effects) which are evident only beyond ∼70 % of the total glacier flowline distance. Our results therefore suggest a strong role of local effects in modulating temperature sensitivity close to the glacier terminus, although further work is still required to explain the variability of these effects for different glaciers."}],"status":"public","keyword":["Earth-Surface Processes","Water Science and Technology"],"oa_version":"Published Version","type":"journal_article","citation":{"apa":"Shaw, T. E., Yang, W., Ayala, Á., Bravo, C., Zhao, C., &#38; Pellicciotti, F. (2021). Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: Temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets. <i>The Cryosphere</i>. Copernicus Publications. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021\">https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021</a>","short":"T.E. Shaw, W. Yang, Á. Ayala, C. Bravo, C. Zhao, F. Pellicciotti, The Cryosphere 15 (2021) 595–614.","mla":"Shaw, Thomas E., et al. “Distributed Summer Air Temperatures across Mountain Glaciers in the South-East Tibetan Plateau: Temperature Sensitivity and Comparison with Existing Glacier Datasets.” <i>The Cryosphere</i>, vol. 15, no. 2, Copernicus Publications, 2021, pp. 595–614, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021\">10.5194/tc-15-595-2021</a>.","chicago":"Shaw, Thomas E., Wei Yang, Álvaro Ayala, Claudio Bravo, Chuanxi Zhao, and Francesca Pellicciotti. “Distributed Summer Air Temperatures across Mountain Glaciers in the South-East Tibetan Plateau: Temperature Sensitivity and Comparison with Existing Glacier Datasets.” <i>The Cryosphere</i>. Copernicus Publications, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021\">https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021</a>.","ieee":"T. E. Shaw, W. Yang, Á. Ayala, C. Bravo, C. Zhao, and F. Pellicciotti, “Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: Temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets,” <i>The Cryosphere</i>, vol. 15, no. 2. Copernicus Publications, pp. 595–614, 2021.","ista":"Shaw TE, Yang W, Ayala Á, Bravo C, Zhao C, Pellicciotti F. 2021. Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: Temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets. The Cryosphere. 15(2), 595–614.","ama":"Shaw TE, Yang W, Ayala Á, Bravo C, Zhao C, Pellicciotti F. Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: Temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets. <i>The Cryosphere</i>. 2021;15(2):595-614. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-595-2021\">10.5194/tc-15-595-2021</a>"},"doi":"10.5194/tc-15-595-2021","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1994-0424"]},"_id":"12589","month":"02","title":"Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: Temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets","issue":"2","publication_status":"published","scopus_import":"1","oa":1,"publisher":"Copernicus Publications","page":"595-614","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"author":[{"first_name":"Thomas E.","full_name":"Shaw, Thomas E.","last_name":"Shaw"},{"first_name":"Wei","full_name":"Yang, Wei","last_name":"Yang"},{"first_name":"Álvaro","full_name":"Ayala, Álvaro","last_name":"Ayala"},{"first_name":"Claudio","full_name":"Bravo, Claudio","last_name":"Bravo"},{"last_name":"Zhao","full_name":"Zhao, Chuanxi","first_name":"Chuanxi"},{"id":"b28f055a-81ea-11ed-b70c-a9fe7f7b0e70","last_name":"Pellicciotti","first_name":"Francesca","full_name":"Pellicciotti, Francesca"}],"year":"2021","date_published":"2021-02-09T00:00:00Z","article_processing_charge":"No","publication":"The Cryosphere","date_created":"2023-02-20T08:11:56Z"}