The role of dead ice in transforming glacier forelands under the rapid climate warming of recent decades, Oscar II Land, Svalbard

• Published in: Land Degradation & Development
• Main Authors: Błaszkiewicz, Mirosław, Andrzejewski, Leon, Dudek, Justyna, Sobota, Ireneusz, Czarnecki, Kamil
• Other Authors: Narodowe Centrum Nauki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: glacier; Ice; Oscar II Land; permafrost; Svalbard; Thermokarst; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4780; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ldr.4780

Abstract The rapid climate changes of recent decades are causing rapid glacier recession in the high Arctic and the loss of large patches and blocks of dead ice. Their temporally differentiated melting is very significantly transforming the relief of marginal zones, creating dead‐ice landscapes. The...