To determine mass balance in the accumulation zone, snowpack depth is measured using probing, snowpits or crevasse stratigraphy.
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In general, the accumulation zone accounts for 60 70 % of the glacier's surface area, more if the glacier calves icebergs.
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The glaciers are thinning in addition to losing areal coverage, and do not have active accumulation zones with retreat occurring on all glacier surfaces.
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Since the large glaciers react slowly to short-term climate changes, these advances cannot be accounted for by increased precipitation in the accumulation zone.
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The amount of snow and ice gained in the accumulation zone and the amount of snow and ice lost in the ablation zone determine glacier mass balance.
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Healthy glaciers have large accumulation zones, more than 60 % of their area snowcovered at the end of the melt season, and a terminus with vigorous flow.
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The cold temperatures and restricted area of open water result in a precipitation field which is less than 0.06 mm d-1 over the ice-sheet accumulation zone ."
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The equilibrium line separates the ablation zone and the accumulation zone; it is the altitude where the amount of new snow gained by accumulation is equal to the amount of ice lost through ablation.
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The " accumulation area ratio " of a glacier, AAR, is the percentage of a glacier that is a snow-covered accumulation zone at the end of the summer melt season.
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Blue Glacier is also thinning as it retreats and between 1987 and 2009 the glacier lost of its depth near its terminus and between in the uppermost sections of the glacier known as the accumulation zone.
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