Potential Environmental Effects of Expanding Lake Jökulsárlón in Response to Melting of Breiðamerkurjökull, Iceland

• Published in: Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
• Main Authors: Canas, Daniel, Chan, Winnie May, Chiu, Austen, Jung-Ritchie, Logan, Leung, Matthew, Pillay, Logesh, Waltham, Brenda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2015
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Breiðamerkurjökull; Jökulsárlón; Vatnajökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cart.50.3.3197g; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cart.50.3.3197G

Glacial retreat has been well documented in several studies on the Vatnajökull ice cap. Breiðamerkurjökull, an outlet glacier from Vatnajökull, has been actively retreating since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid-nineteenth century. There is a strong correlation between the increasing rate of...