Local surface mass-balance reconstruction from a tephra layer – a case study on the northern slope of Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: MAYER, CHRISTOPH, JAENICKE, JULIA, LAMBRECHT, ASTRID, BRAUN, LUDWIG, VÖLKSEN, CHRISTOF, MINET, CHRISTIAN, MÜNZER, ULRICH
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Mýrdalsjökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.119; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143016001192

ABSTRACT Most Icelandic glaciers show high-accumulation rates during winter and strong surface melting during summer. Although it is difficult to establish and maintain mass-balance programs on these glaciers, mass-balance series do exist for several of the ice caps (Björnsson and others, 2013). We...