Warming waters and melting glaciers:reconstructing ice-ocean interactions from marine sediments in Greenland

• Main Author: Vermassen, Flor
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Jakobshavn Isbræ; Kangerlussuaq; Upernavik Isstrøm; Disko Bay; Disko bugt; East Greenland; glacier; greenlandic; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Jakobshavn; Jakobshavn isbræ; North Atlantic; Upernavik
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/warming-waters-and-melting-glaciers(0b9b211e-ae47-4239-b4ae-ca17e7525d9f).html; https://soeg.kb.dk/permalink/45KBDK_KGL/1ed7rpq/alma99123213867305763

In order to predict the future fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a thorough understanding of both recent and past changes is required. In particular, the importance of the different factors influencing the stability of marine-terminating glaciers needs to be unraveled, since these glacierstransport l...