Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes

Cook, S. J.; Quincey, D. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-559-2015

Articles | Volume 3, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-559-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-559-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 4

Research article

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14 Dec 2015

Research article |

| 14 Dec 2015

Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes

S. J. Cook and D. J. Quincey

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SC C342: 'area, depth and volume of alpine lakes', Wilfried Haeberli, 07 Oct 2015
- RC C344: 'Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Oct 2015
  - AC C445: 'Reply to Reviewer 1 esurfd-3-C344-2015', Simon Cook, 23 Nov 2015
- AC C368: 'Reply to W. Haeberli (ESurfD 3, C342–C343, 2015)', Simon Cook, 19 Oct 2015
RC C346: 'Reviewer comment', Juergen Herget, 09 Oct 2015
- AC C448: 'Reply to Reviewer 2 esurfd-3-C346-2015', Simon Cook, 23 Nov 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Simon Cook on behalf of the Authors (23 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Nov 2015) by Jens Turowski

RR by Juergen Herget (27 Nov 2015)

ED: Publish as is (27 Nov 2015) by Jens Turowski

ED: Publish as is (27 Nov 2015) by Tom Coulthard (Editor)

AR by Simon Cook on behalf of the Authors (02 Dec 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We compiled data on Alpine glacial lake morphometry to test empirical relationships that are used to estimate lake volume for the modelling of glacial lake outburst floods. We find wide scatter in the relationship between lake area and depth, and between area and volume, and identify contexts where existing empirical relationships are poor volume predictors. We generate a data-driven conceptual model of how lake volume should be expected to scale with area for a range of glacial lake contexts.