© 2008 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. LETTERS Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered

• Main Authors: David M. Holland, Robert H. Thomas, Brad De Young, Mads H. Ribergaard
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Sea; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Antarc*; glacier; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.483.8562; http://www.physics.mun.ca/~bdeyoung/jakobshavn_2008.pdf

Observations over the past decades show a rapid acceleration of several outlet glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica1. One of the largest changes is a sudden switch of Jakobshavn Isbræ, a large outlet glacier feeding a deep-ocean fjord on Greenland’s west coast, from slow thickening to rapid thinning...