BGR Volume 06
Bulletin of Glacier Research Publication No.6 (March,1988)
Contents Heat balance on the icefield of San Rafael Glacier, the Northern Patagonia Icefield Hiroshi KONDO and Jiro INOUE ...................................... 1 Evaporation of river water in West Kunlun Mountains, China Masayoshi NAKAWO and Hiroshi TAKAHARA ............................. 9 Climate and weather at the Advance Camp in East Queen Maud Land, Antarctica Tokio KIKUCHI, Yutaka AGETA, Fumio OKUHIRA and Takashi SHIMAMOTO ... 17 Ice flow characteristics derived from bedrock topography around Mizuho station, East Antarctica Hirokazu OHMAE and Fumihiko NISHIO ................................. 27 Bedrock and ice surface profiles in the Shirase Glacier basin determined by the ground-based radio-echo sounding Fumihiko NISHIO, Hirokazu OHMAE and Masao ISHIKAWA ................. 33 A preliminary estimation of drifting snow convergence along a flow line of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica Shuhei TAKAHASHI ................................................... 41 Outlines of the Japanese Arctic Glaciological Expedition in 1987 Okitsugu WATANABE and Yoshiyuki FUJII .............................. 47 Meteorological observations at Asgardfonna, Spitsbergen, 1987 Kaoru IZUMI, Kazuhide SATOW, Yoshiyuki FUJII and Sadao KAWAGUCHI.... 51 Some remarks on the mass balance and the terminal-lateral fluctuations of San Rafael Glacier, the Northern Patagonia Icefield Hiroshi KONDO and Tomomi YAMADA .................................... 55 Contribution of glacier meltwater to runoff in glacialized watersheds in the Langtang Valley, Nepal Himalayas Tomomi YAMADA and Hideaki MOTOYAMA ................................. 65 The preliminary report of Sino-Japanese Joint Glaciological Expedition in West Kunlun Mountains 1987 ZHENG Benxing, CHEN Jianming and Yutaka AGETA ...................... 75 Recent Soviet activites on ice core drilling and core investigations in Arctic region Victor S. ZAGORODNOV ............................................... 81