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Calculates glacier area based on glacier volume

Source: R/glacierArea_RGIF.R
glacierArea_RGIF.Rd

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)

Source

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

Arguments

volume_km3

glacier volume in km3

Value

glacier area in km2

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.

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)