Climate change and ‘anomalous' glacier fluctuations: the southwest outlets of Mrdalsjökull, Iceland

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: CASELY, ANDREW F., DUGMORE, ANDREW J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Sólheimajökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2004.tb01133.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.2004.tb01133.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2004.tb01133.x

Evidence of past glacier fluctuations is valuable palaeoenvironmental data, but determining their relationship to climatic change is sometimes complex because of differing glacier sensitivities and patterns of response. In Iceland, a diverse range of glaciation creates changing geographical patterns...