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B/EGISÁRJÖKULLMASS BALANCE 1967-1968
Fig. 12. Mass balance of Bægisárjökull in 1966—67 and 1967—68. Variation of winter balance,
summer balance and net balance with height a. s. 1., glacier area distribution-and areal values
of net balance in 50 m intervals. In 1968 the balance had to be summed up at August 18 and
bs*, and bn*, Bn* refer to that date.
12. mynd. Búskapur Bœgisárjökuls á árunum 1966—67 og 1967—68. Sýnd er breyting vetrar-
áliornu, sumarleysingar og ársafkomu með lueð yfir sjó.
is that the glacier was covered with snow for
the most part of the summer and as shown by
Björnsson (1972) global radiation was the
dominating single component responsible for
the ablation.In the steepest uppermost parts
of the glacier the summer ablation was fairly
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