Warming of Atlantic Waters in Fram Strait and Underneath the 79°N-Glacier

• Main Authors: Schaffer, Janin, Dodd, Paul A., von Appen, Wilken-Jon, Kanzow, Torsten, Mayer, Christoph, Timmermann, Ralph, Schauer, Ursula
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Fram Strait; glacier; Greenland; Ice Sheet; Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47038/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.2827e82f-fa5a-40ef-8f59-9fb16e0ddf2a

The ocean plays an important role in modulating the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet by delivering heat to the marine-terminating outlet glaciers around Greenland. A key region for the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet is the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. This large ice stream drains...