Multi-decadal reduction in glacier velocities and mechanisms driving deceleration at polythermal White Glacier, Arctic Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: THOMSON, LAURA I., COPLAND, LUKE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Arctic; Canada; Ela; White Glacier; glacier*; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.3; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S002214301700003X

ABSTRACT Annual and seasonal surface velocities measured continuously from 1960 to 1970 at White Glacier, a 14 km long polythermal valley glacier spanning ~100–1800 m a.s.l., provide the most comprehensive early record of ice dynamics in the Canadian Arctic. Through comparison with differential GPS-...