oggm.core.massbalance.MassBalanceModel.get_monthly_mb¶

MassBalanceModel.get_monthly_mb(self, heights, year=None, fl_id=None, fls=None)[source]¶

Monthly mass-balance at given altitude(s) for a moment in time.

Units: [m s-1], or meters of ice per second

Note: year is optional because some simpler models have no time component.

Parameters:

heights: ndarray: the atitudes at which the mass-balance will be computed
year: float, optional: the time (in the “hydrological floating year” convention)
fl_id: float, optional: the index of the flowline in the fls array (might be ignored by some MB models)
fls: list of flowline instances, optional: the flowlines array, in case the MB model implementation needs to know details about the glacier geometry at the moment the MB model is called

Returns: