A spreadsheet-based (Microsoft Excel) point surface energy balance model for glacier and snow melt studies
Alps (The) ; Energy balance ; Glacial ablation ; Glacier ; Model ; Mountain ; Snow ; Software ; Switzerland
the net shortwave and longwave radiation fluxes, the turbulent sensible and latent heat fluxes and the surface melt rate at a point on a melting ice or snow surface, from hourly inputs of incoming shortwave radiation, vapour pressure, air temperature