PDD Melt

Version 1.0.0.0 (1.22 KB) by Felix Hebeler
Calculates melt for a DEM based on positive degree days factor
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Simple function to calculate melt rates in meter water equivalent per year for a digital elevation model (DEM) based on positive degree days factor (PDD) using seasonal variation.
User can specify factors: mean annual temperature, PDD_ice, seasonal variation in degrees and year length.
Approach following Marshall, SJ and Clarke, GKC 1999: Ice sheet inception: subgrid hypsometric parameterization of mass balance in an ice sheet model. Climate Dynamics 15:533-550
Does not include different PDDs for ice and snow yet, nor does it consider refreezing etc yet.

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Felix Hebeler (2024). PDD Melt (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13931-pdd-melt), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2006a
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

-Fixed bug in parameter passing
-Updated minimum altitude to default to min(dem(:))
-corrected help